Rudolph Herzog

Rudolph Herzog

Born 1973

Biography

German writer, actor and film director born in 1973. Among his best-known works are the documentaries The Heist (2004, Channel 4), Amundsen: Lost in the Arctic (2010, for National Geographic / ZDF), The Agent (2013) and A Short History of Nuclear Folly (2014). He co-wrote the films The White Diamond (2014) and Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) in collaboration with his father, Werner Herzog. His documentary Heil Hitler, The Pig is Dead (2006) about the humor in the Third Reich obtained a great audience response in German television, and his later book on the same subject also had international impact (Also published in Spain). In 2019 he published his book, Ghosts of Berlin, and premiered his film How to Fake a War in Edinburgh.

Festival de Cine de Sevilla

Screenwriter

Director