Herzog
Americannoun
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Chaim 1918–97, Israeli political leader: president 1983–1997.
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Maurice, 1919–2012, French mountaineer: climbed Annapurna 1950.
noun
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Roman. born 1934, German politician; president of Germany (1994–99)
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Werner (ˈvɛrnər). born 1942, German film director. His films include Signs of Life (1967), Fata Morgana (1970), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), and Grizzly Man (2005)
Example Sentences
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“Ghost Elephants” is what filmmaker Werner Herzog calls the subjects of his latest documentary, acknowledging in his title that the animals may not exist.
Longtime fans of Mr. Herzog will nod sagely: Men whose level of commitment to a dangerous obsession straddles the line between admirable and demented have formed the core of Mr. Herzog’s work for more than half a century.
Mr. Herzog, who with his intensely dramatic yet dryly matter-of-fact vocal stylings lends the feature his typically scintillating narration, follows him on a journey to Namibia and Angola in search of the ghost elephants.
The photography is occasionally dazzling—a standout sequence is a series of time-lapse images providing views of the movements of the stars over Africa—but Mr. Herzog is primarily a storyteller, albeit a digressive one.
Mr. Herzog is interested in everything, and makes everything interesting, exulting in all of the world’s settings, the stranger the better.
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