Rudolph Herzog (born 1973,
Munich
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) is a German film director, producer and writer.
["Rudolph Herzog"]
a profile at Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with u ...
Foundation
Films
*2022: ''Last Exit: Space'', a documentary about
colonizing space, director;
*2019: ''How to Fake a War'', released at the
Edinburgh International Film Festival
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,
*2011: BBC/ARD documentary on humour in
Nazi Germany
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based on the book ''Dead Funny''
*2014:''The President'', coproducer, a feature film about the last days of a dictator.
**Best Film at the
Chicago Film Festival, the Audience Award for Best Film from the
Tokyo FILMeX
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and the
Beirut International Film Festival A growing number of film festivals are held in the Arab world to showcase films from the region as well as international standouts. In addition, institutions and organizations in other parts of the world are increasingly honoring the new generation ...
and the Golden Hooker Award at the
Galway Film Fleadh
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;
"'The President' acquired by Swipe for UK"
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* 2014: ''A Short History of Nuclear Folly''; original German title: ''Die Atombombe im Vorgarten'';
** A documentary based on the book ''Der verstrahlte Westernheld'' translated as ''A Short History of Nuclear Folly''
*2010: ''Amundsen - Lost in the Arctic'', a ''National Geographic
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'' documentary on polar explorer Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (, ; ; 16 July 1872 – ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Amundsen bega ...
, writer, director
*2008: ''Abora - Letzte Position Atlantik''
*''The Agent'', about the Stasi double agent
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*2006: ''Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot! - Humor unterm Hakenkreuz'';
** TV film about Holocaust humor
There are several major aspects of humor related to the Holocaust: humor of the Jews in Nazi Germany and in Nazi concentration and extermination camps, a specific kind of " gallows humor"; German humor on the subject during the Nazi era; the app ...
**2007: UK release: ''Laughing with Hitler'', narrator;
*2004: ''The White Diamond
''The White Diamond'' is a 2004 documentary film by Werner Herzog. It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airshi ...
'', documentary, screenplay by Rudolph Herzog; directed by Werner Herzog;
*2004: ''The Heist'', reality crime series, director
Books
*2017: ''Truggestalten''
**A collection of seven supernatural stories
**2019: Translation: ''Ghosts of Berlin''
*2012: ''Der verstrahlte Westernheld und anderer Irrsinn aus dem Atomzeitalter'' ("The irradiated western hero and other madness from the nuclear age")
**2014: Translation: ''A Short History of Nuclear Folly''
*2006: ''Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot! Lachen unter Hitler - Komik und Humor im Dritten Reich'',
**2011: Translation: ''Dead Funny. Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany'' (based on ''Laughing with Hitler'')
***Named Book of the Year by ''The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
'' ["The Sound of Young America: Writer and Filmmaker Rudolph Herzog"]
transcript of the interview at the ''Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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'' podcast[Monica Osborne, "Springtime for Hitler", '']The New Republic
''The New Republic'' is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts. Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in hum ...
'', August 21, 2011, a review of Herzog's book
References
External links
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1973 births
Living people
German film directors
German writers