As a director, Rudolph Herzog is best known for films such as THE AGENT on the Stasi double agent Werner Stiller who escaped East Germany and became a millionaire at Goldman Sachs, and LOST IN THE ARCTIC, a National Geographic/ZDF documentary on the mysterious death of polar explorer Roald Amundsen.
Rudolph Herzog‘s documentary on humour in Hitler's Third Reich scored top audience ratings on German Channel 1 and his book DEAD FUNNY on the same subject was reviewed internationally, from THE TIMES to AL JAZEERA.
„A thrilling book and a lavish film“ - Der Spiegel -
The film was broadcast by the BBC and the book has been translated into English, Italian, French and Chinese.
