The French as Seen by...

The French as seen by... (Les Français vus par... in French) was the title and subject of a series of five short films by notable directors. It was initiated and sponsored by the newspaper Le Figaro, as part of the 1988 celebration of the tenth anniversary of its magazine section. The directors and films produced were:

Werner Herzog - Les Gaulois
David Lynch - The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Andrzej Wajda - Proust contre la déchéance
Luigi Comencini - Pèlerinage à Agen
Jean-Luc Godard - Le dernier mot

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Filmography Bibliography
Feature films	Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2006) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015) Salt and Fire (2016) Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1981) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012) Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Into the Inferno (2016) Meeting Gorbachev (2018) Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
Shorts	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1968) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)
Other	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
Books	Of Walking in Ice (1978) Conquest of the Useless (2004) The Twilight World (2021) Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2022)
Related	Lena Herzog (wife) Lucki Stipetić (brother) Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) Burden of Dreams (1982) Location Africa (1987) Plastic Bag (2009)
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