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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (46)
Felicidad
Producer (Production)
2025
Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor (Editing)
2025
Ghost Elephants
as Narrator (voice)
2025
Reeling
Executive Producer (Production)
2025
The End
Executive Producer (Production)
2024
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
as Self (archival footage)
2024
Kinski
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)
2023
Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant (Crew)
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022
Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
2022
Theater of Thought
Director (Directing)
2022
Flores del precipicio
Producer (Production)
2022
Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
2022
El Poso
Producer (Production)
2022
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
as Self (archive footage)
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
as Self
2021
The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)
2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
2020
Family Romance, LLC
Director (Directing)
2019
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
as Self
2019
Tattoo Uprising
as Self
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
as Self
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
2019
Love Birds
Consulting Producer (Production)
2019
The Last Scene
Executive Producer (Production)
2019
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
as Self
2018
Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
as Self
2018
I'm a Soldier
as Self
2018
The Empty Goal
Thanks (Crew)
2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
as Self
2018
The whole world is country
Consulting Producer (Production)
2018
The Golden Gate
Executive Producer (Production)
2018
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as Self
2017
