Synopsis
For a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes has been in search of a mysterious elusive herd of Ghost Elephants in the highlands of Angola, a wooded plateau — virtually uninhabited, but in size as large as England. He sets out with master trackers from Namibia, the best remaining in the world, but there is a deep underlying question: would it not be better to keep these gigantic elephants rather as a dream, as ghosts, as the White Whale, than finding them in reality?
Filmmaker
Werner Herzog
He has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature and documentary films. He has also published more than a dozen books of prose and directed as many operas.
Filmography: Ghost Elephants (2025, D'A 2026), The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022), Theater of Thought (2022), Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds (co-directed, 2020), Family Romance, LLC (2019), Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019, D'A 2020), Meeting Gorbachev (co-directed, 2018), Into the Inferno (2016), Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016), Salt and Fire (2016), Queen of the Desert (2015), Into the Abyss (2011, D'A 2012), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (co-directed, 2010), Bad Lieutenant (2009), My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2007), Encounters at the End of The World (2007), Rescue Dawn (2006), Grizzly Man (2005), The Wild Blue Yonder (2005), The White Diamond (2004), Wheel of Time (2003), Invincible (2001), Pilgrimage (2001), My Best Friend (1999), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Bells From the Deep (1993), Scream of Stone (1991), Echos aus einem düsteren Reich (1990), Cobra Verde (1987), Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Stroszek (1977), Heart of Glass (1976), The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (mid-length, 1974), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), Fata Morgana (1971), Land of Silence and Darkness (1971), Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970), Signs of Life (1968)
Awards and festivals
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