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Werner Herzog’s 2007 penguin clip goes viral, reviving his fame on social media

How a 2007 penguin scene became a 2026 social media phenomenon

A single penguin walking alone toward certain death in the Antarctic wilderness has become Werner Herzog’s unlikely gateway to global fame on social media, two decades after he first filmed it. The clip from his 2007 documentary “Encounters at the End of the World” shows the filmmaker questioning the bird’s direction with his now-iconic “But … Weiterlesen …