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Werner Herzog to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 82nd Venice Film Festival • Apr. 8, 2025, 11:53 PM ET (The Hollywood Reporter)
Herzog can remove PM from power for defying court, Liberman claims • Mar. 24, 2025, 5:21 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)

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Also Known As Werner H. Stipetic
Born September 5, 1942 (age 82) • Munich • Germany
Notable Works “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” • “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” • “Family Romance, LLC” • “Fitzcarraldo” • “Grizzly Man” • “Lo and Behold, Reveries of a Connected World” • “Meeting Gorbachev” • “Nosferatu, the Vampyre” • “Queen of the Desert”

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