Over his 57 years making movies, Werner Herzog has carved out two film careers. Naturally, most critical and box-office attention has issued from his great feature-length fictions - Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, The Wrath of God and so forth. Alongside his features Herzog has assembled a distinct oeuvre of documentaries. These imaginative, often impish, works place the filmmaker in conversation with eccentrics who’ve lived in proximity to something remarkable. Take Juliane Koepcke, the German who, having survived a plane crash in 1971, walked out of the rainforest, alone a feat Herzog recreated in Wings of Hope.
