Werner Herzog
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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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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Known for
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Orion and the Dark
The Arc of Oblivion
Notes from a Dromedary
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Tegoyo
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Theatre of Thought
Flores del precipicio
Last Exit: Space
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
El Poso
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
The Andinist
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
The Mandalorian
Family Romance, LLC
Tattoo Uprising
Meeting Gorbachev
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Jihad in Hollywood
The Last Scene
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Paradox Bullets
The Great Buster: A Celebration
I'm a Soldier
The Empty Goal
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
A Gray State
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Salt and Fire
Into the Inferno
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
The Blimp-Maker
Jihad in Hollywood
Freaks of Nature
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Queen of the Desert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Look of Silence
Penguins of Madagascar
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Red Army
Life Itself
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Unbelievers
Rick and Morty
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Mistaken for Strangers
From One Second to the Next
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
The Last Shepherd
Jack Reacher
The Act of Killing
Close Up
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
The Killers: Unstaged
Dinotasia
On Death Row
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Into the Abyss
On Borrowed Time
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Champions: A Comic Tale
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Plastic Bag
La Bohème
Parks and Recreation
Capturing Reality
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
BLAST!
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Bierbichler
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Encounters at the End of the World
The Grand
All In This Tea
Rescue Dawn
The Henry Rollins Show
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
The Colbert Report
The Wild Blue Yonder
Grizzly Man
American Dad!
What Is It?
Incident at Loch Ness
The White Diamond
Kulturplatz
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Wheel of Time
Strawberryland
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
The Boxing Prince
Invincible
The 100 Greatest Films
Pilgrimage
Tannhäuser
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Wings of Hope
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000 Years of Christianity
Julien Donkey-Boy
My Best Fiend
What Dreams May Come
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Burning Heart
Dangerous Game
Bells from the Deep
Lessons of Darkness
Film Lesson
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Scream of Stone
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Hard to Be a God
The Simpsons
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Bride of the Orient
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Giovanna d'Arco
Cobra Verde
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Tokyo-Ga
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Where the Green Ants Dream
Man of Flowers
Huie's Sermon
Burden of Dreams
Room 666
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
Fitzcarraldo
God's Angry Man
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Woyzeck
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Nosferatu the Vampyre
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Stroszek
Journey Through History
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Heart of Glass
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
No One Will Play with Me
Lost in the Garden of the World
Midi Première
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Spécial cinéma
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Land of Silence and Darkness
Fata Morgana
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Handicapped Future
Even Dwarfs Started Small
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Precautions Against Fanatics
Signs of Life
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Last Words
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Herakles