Every Man for Himself and God Against All

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
by Werner Herzog

ISBN: 9780593490310
Softcover, new

Brief Description:
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. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new
world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. 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. It was there, as the new
postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of
the next seven decades was formed. Until age 11, Herzog did not even know
of the existence of cinema. 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. He started to travel on foot. He made his first
phone call at age 17, and his first film in 1961 at age 19. 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. 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. 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.