Werner Herzog
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1942 (age 84)
- Birthplace
- Munich, Allemagne
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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Filmography
The Twilight World
Movie · Director
Walk of Life
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Bucking Fastard
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Ghost Elephants
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Theater of Thought
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The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Movie · Director
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
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Meeting Gorbachev
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Movie · Director
Family Romance, LLC
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Into the Inferno
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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
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Salt and Fire
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Queen of the Desert
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From One Second to the Next
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The Killers: Unstaged
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On Death Row
TV · Director · 4 eps
Into the Abyss
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Ode to the Dawn of Man
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
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La Bohème
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Encounters at the End of the World
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Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
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Rescue Dawn
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Grizzly Man
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The Wild Blue Yonder
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The White Diamond
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Wheel of Time
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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Ten Thousand Years Older
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Invincible
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Pilgrimage
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Tannhäuser
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My Best Fiend
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Wings of Hope
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2000 Years of Christianity
TV · Director · 1 ep
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
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The Transformation of the World Into Music
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Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
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Bells from the Deep
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Lessons of Darkness
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La Donna del Lago
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Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
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Scream of Stone
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Film Lesson
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Echoes from a Sombre Empire
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Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
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Giovanna d'Arco
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Under the Sun
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The French as Seen by…
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The Gauls
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Cobra Verde
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Portrait: Werner Herzog
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The Dark Glow of the Mountains
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Where the Green Ants Dream
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Ballad of the Little Soldier
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God's Angry Man
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Huie's Sermon
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Fitzcarraldo
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Woyzeck
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
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Stroszek
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La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
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Heart of Glass
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
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No One Will Play with Me
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
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The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
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Fata Morgana
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Even Dwarfs Started Small
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Land of Silence and Darkness
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Handicapped Future
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The Flying Doctors of East Africa
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Precautions Against Fanatics
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Signs of Life
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Last Words
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The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
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Herakles
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