Steinaecker first reached out to Werner Herzog in 2020 about making a documentary surveying the prolific

peers told him that he would never hear back from Herzog

time, von Steinaecker completed “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

feature documentary chronicles not just Herzog’s 60-year career, but also explores what makes Herzog

Steinaecker discovered Herzog in his early teens when he turned on the television and watched “

moment on, von Steinaecker was “fascinated” with the director

(‘Aguirre, the Wrath of God’) was shockingly different and strange,” he says

Klaus Kinski, the story and, last but not least, the documentary-style camera

that such a film had been made in – from a cinematic point of view – boring

left a lasting impression on me as a writer and have no equal in German