Walter Saxer

Walter Saxer (born 1947) is a Swiss film producer, production manager, screenwriter, and film director, born in 1947 in St. Gallen.

At the age of 20, Walter Saxer met Werner Herzog and became a unit production manager in Herzog's debut Even Dwarfs Started Small. A long-time collaborator, in the following years Saxer produced Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Stroszek (1977), and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979). Saxer's credits as producer include more than 22 films, he also wrote the script of the Scream of Stone. His most known project is Fitzcarraldo, a film that is considered one of the most difficult productions in the history of cinema. The story is narrated by Mario Vargas Llosa. The film was shown only once on Swiss TV in the 1980s. Decades later, the restored version of Sepa: Nuestro Señor de los milagros premiered in Spain during the 2021 Play-Doc film festival in Tui, Galicia.

In the mid 90's Saxer moved to the city of Iquitos, where he dedicated himself to managing a small hotel called .