He made his first film in 1961 at the age of nineteen. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.Ībout the Author Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great and self-invented lives of our time, and a singular literary masterpiece that will enthrall fans old and new alike. The wildly productive working life that followed-spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction-was an adventure as grand and otherworldly as any depicted in his many classic films. He made his first phone call at age 17, and his first film in 1961 at age 19. His interest in films began at age 15, but since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the night shift as a welder in a steel factory. Until age 11, Herzog did not even know of the existence of cinema. It was there, as the new postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of the next seven decades was formed.

Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog's mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running water, in deep poverty. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Book Synopsis Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War.

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