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Werner Herzog doesn't write traditionalscreenplays; he writes fever dreams brimming with madness, greed, humor, anddark isolation that can shift dramatically during production-and havematerialized into extraordinary masterpieces unlike anything in film today.Harnessing his vision and transcendent reality, these four pieces of long-formprose earmark a renowned filmmaker at the dawn of his career.

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A compulsively readable, probing collection. It's equal parts challenging and satisfying, infuriating and enlightening. --Publishers Weekly Herzog seems to peer nonstop into the abysm combining vainglory, cruelty, and madness. Those are the coordinates at which Herzog geolocates humanity. --BookForum Scenarios contains more than merely dialogue in cold type. Herzog's screenplays read like novellas--the characters are fully thought-out and the settings are vividly described, albeit in long, medium and close shots. --Shepherd Express

A compulsively readable, probing collection. It's equal parts challenging and satisfying, infuriating and enlightening. -Publishers Weekly Herzog seems to peer nonstop into the abysm combining vainglory, cruelty, and madness. Those are the coordinates at which Herzog geolocates humanity. -BookForum Scenarios contains more than merely dialogue in cold type. Herzog's screenplays read like novellas-the characters are fully thought-out and the settings are vividly described, albeit in long, medium and close shots. -Shepherd Express Herzog doesn't write traditional scripts. Instead, Herzog writes scenarios which are like a hybrid of film, fiction, and prose poetry. -Film International

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Werner Herzog has produced, written, and directed more than seventy films. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He is author of Of Walking in Ice: MunichParis, 23 November14 December 1974 (Minnesota, 2015) andConquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo.

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