At a time when many around the world are leading more sedentary and restricted lives than usual, Werner Herzog has released a paean to roving. “Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin” is a portrait of one of his dear companions and a restless, singular storyteller. Mr Herzog narrates and acts as a guide, weaving together Chatwin’s writing, photographs and archival recordings with the testimony of those who knew him

In 2019 the BBC approached Mr Herzog about creating a tribute to his friend (pictured below), 30 years after his death from AIDS aged 49. Chatwin is still regarded as one of the godfathers of modern travel writing, someone who engaged with the world by walking through it. A product of English public schools, steeped in the tales of far-flung relatives, Chatwin fancied himself a modern version of the 19th-century explorer. He once told André Malraux, a French novelist, that he hailed from “an island of buccaneers and pirates.”