Werner Herzog
Biography
Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.
Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009.
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Acting (136 movies)
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
The White Diamond
2004
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
My Best Fiend
1999
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Burden of Dreams
1982
The Grand
2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
Strawberryland
2012
Heart of Glass
1976
Mister Lonely
2008
Hard to Be a God
1990
Close Up
2012
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
Plastic Bag
2009
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
Jack Reacher
2012
Tokyo-Ga
1985
All In This Tea
2007
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Into the Abyss
2011
Orion and the Dark
2024
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Last Exit: Space
2022
Scream of Stone
1991
Dinotasia
2012
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Man of Flowers
1983
Tegoyo
2022
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
The Unbelievers
2013
Location Africa
1987
Dangerous Game
1993
The Boxing Prince
2002
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
Life Itself
2014
Bride of the Orient
1989
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
Journey Through History
1977
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
Bierbichler
2008
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
On Borrowed Time
2011
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1971
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
Grizzly Man
2005
Into the Inferno
2016
Salt and Fire
2016
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
Film Hour
1991
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Signs of Life
1968
Burning Heart
1995
Freaks of Nature
2015
What Dreams May Come
1998
Capturing Reality
2008
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
Wings of Hope
1999
Room 666
1982
The Valley
2027
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
BLAST!
2008
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
Directing (73 movies)
Grizzly Man
2005
Woyzeck
1979
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Cobra Verde
1987
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1970
Stroszek
1977
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
The White Diamond
2004
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
My Best Fiend
1999
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Heart of Glass
1976
Rescue Dawn
2007
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967
La Bohème
2009
God's Angry Man
1981
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
Handicapped Future
1971
Herakles
1962
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Signs of Life
1968
Invincible
2001
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Fata Morgana
1972
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
Into the Abyss
2011
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Wings of Hope
1999
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Scream of Stone
1991
Bells from the Deep
1993
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
No One Will Play with Me
1976
Huie's Sermon
1983
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
Queen of the Desert
2015
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
Last Words
1968
Theater of Thought
2022
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Pilgrimage
2001
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011
From One Second to the Next
2013
Giovanna d'Arco
1989
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
The French as Seen by…
1988
Into the Inferno
2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Film Hour
1991
Wheel of Time
2003
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
The Gauls
1988
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Salt and Fire
2016
Family Romance, LLC
2019
La Donna del Lago
1992
Ghost Elephants
2025