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.
Movies (137)
Ghost Elephants
2026
Sirena
2025
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
Orion and the Dark
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Tegoyo
2022
Last Exit: Space
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
The Andinist
2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
Tattoo Uprising
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
Paradox Bullets
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
I'm a Soldier
2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
Salt and Fire
2016
Into the Inferno
2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
Freaks of Nature
2015
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
Atari: Game Over
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
Life Itself
2014
The Unbelievers
2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
Jack Reacher
2012
Strawberryfields
2012
Close Up
2012
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
Dinotasia
2012
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
Into the Abyss
2011
On Borrowed Time
2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
Plastic Bag
2009
Capturing Reality
2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
BLAST!
2008
Bierbichler
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
Mister Lonely
2008
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
The Grand
2007
All In This Tea
2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
Grizzly Man
2005
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
The White Diamond
2004
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004
Wheel of Time
2003
The Boxing Prince
2002
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
Wings of Hope
1999
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
My Best Fiend
1999
What Dreams May Come
1998
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Burning Heart
1995
Dangerous Game
1993
Bells from the Deep
1993
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
Scream of Stone
1991
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
Hard to Be a God
1990
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
Bride of the Orient
1989
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988
Location Africa
1987
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
Tokyo-Ga
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985
Room 666
1985
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Man of Flowers
1983
God's Angry Man
1983
Burden of Dreams
1982
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Journey Through History
1977
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
Heart of Glass
1976
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
Handicapped Future
1971
Signs of Life
1968
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Ally
TV Shows (23)
Hulk Hogan: Real American
2026
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
The Mandalorian
2019
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Rick and Morty
2013
On Death Row
2012
Parks and Recreation
2009
Metalocalypse
2006
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
The Boondocks
2005
The Colbert Report
2005
American Dad!
2005
Kulturplatz
2004
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Film Lesson
1991
The Simpsons
1989
The Simpsons
1989
The Simpsons
1989
Midi Première
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
60 Minutes
1968