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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 do…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Werner Herzog's Filmography
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Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
Ghost Elephants
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Sirena
About a Hero
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
as Self (archival footage)
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
as Self (archive footage)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
as Self
The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
as Self
Tattoo Uprising
as Self
Meeting Gorbachev
as Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
as Self
Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
as Self
I'm a Soldier
as Self
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
as Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as Self
Werner We Love You
as Self
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
as Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self (archive footage)
Salt and Fire
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
Into the Inferno
as Self
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
as Self
Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
Freaks of Nature
as Perfect Being (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Atari: Game Over
as Self (archival)
No Poster
Lemonade War
as Neighborhood Hero
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
as Self
Life Itself
as Self - Filmmaker
The Unbelievers
as Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
as Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
as Self
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Alexander von Humboldt
Mistaken for Strangers
as Self (uncredited)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
as Self
Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
Strawberryfields
as Turnlehrer
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
as Self
The Killers: Unstaged
as Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
as Self
Dinotasia
as Narrator (voice)
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
as Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
as Self
Into the Abyss
as Narrator (voice)
On Borrowed Time
as Self
Champions: A Comic Tale
as Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self
No Poster
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
as Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (voice)
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
as Self
No Poster
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
as Self
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
as Self
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
as Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
as Himself
Plastic Bag
as Plastic Bag (voice)
No Poster
The Lonely
Capturing Reality
as Self
Encounters at the End of the World
as Narrator (voice)
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
as Self
BLAST!
as Narrator (voice)
Bierbichler
as Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self
Mister Lonely
as Father Umbrillo
No Poster
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
as Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
as Self
No Poster
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
as Self
The Grand
as The German
All In This Tea
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
No Poster
Walking to Werner
as Self (voice)
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
as Self
No Poster
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
as Self
No Poster
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
as Self
Grizzly Man
as Self / Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Dreams and Burdens
as Self
Incident at Loch Ness
as Self
The White Diamond
as Narrator (voice)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
No Poster
Dribble
as Self (voice)
Wheel of Time
as Narrator (voice)
The Boxing Prince
as Self
The 100 Greatest Films
as Self
No Poster
The Last Documentary
as Self
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
as Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
as Self
Wings of Hope
as Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
as Father
No Poster
A Brief History of Errol Morris
as Self
My Best Fiend
as Self
No Poster
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self
What Dreams May Come
as Face
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
as Narrator (voice)
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
as Self
The Transformation of the World Into Music
as Self
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
as Narrator (voice)
Burning Heart
Dangerous Game
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bells from the Deep
as Narrator (voice)
Lessons of Darkness
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
as Narrator (voice)
SnowwhiteRosered
as Self
Scream of Stone
as TV-Regisseur
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
as Self
Hard to Be a God
as Mita / Richard
No Poster
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
as Self
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
as Narrator (voice)
Bride of the Orient
as Businger
No Poster
The Heart and the Legs
as Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
as Self
Location Africa
as Self
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self
Tokyo-Ga
as Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
as Self (voice)
Room 666
as Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
as Self (voice)
Where the Green Ants Dream
as Lawyer (uncredited)
Man of Flowers
as The Father
God's Angry Man
as Narrator (voice)
Burden of Dreams
as Self - Filmmaker
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
as Self
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
as Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
as Narrator (voice)
Journey Through History
as Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as Self
Heart of Glass
as Glass Transporter
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
as Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
as Self
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as Hurenmörder
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
as Self
Handicapped Future
as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Signs of Life
as Soldier (uncredited)
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Ally
as (voice)
No Poster
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
as Self
No Poster
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
as Self