Directing · b. 1942 · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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 ...

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Ghost Elephants 2026 The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 2024 Theater of Thought 2024 Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds 2020 Meeting Gorbachev 2019 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 2019 Family Romance, LLC 2019 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 2016 Into the Inferno 2016 Salt and Fire 2016 Queen of the Desert 2015 From One Second to the Next 2013 The Killers: Unstaged 2012 Into the Abyss 2011 Ode to the Dawn of Man 2011 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 2009 La Bohème 2009 Encounters at the End of the World 2007 Rescue Dawn 2007 Grizzly Man 2005 The Wild Blue Yonder 2005 The White Diamond 2004 Wheel of Time 2003 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002 Ten Thousand Years Older 2002 Invincible 2001 Pilgrimage 2001 My Best Fiend 1999 Wings of Hope 1999 Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997 The Transformation of the World Into Music 1996 Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices 1995 Bells from the Deep 1993 Lessons of Darkness 1992 La Donna del Lago 1992 Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur 1991 Scream of Stone 1991 Echoes from a Sombre Empire 1990 Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun 1989 Giovanna d'Arco 1989 The French as Seen by… 1988 The Gauls 1988 Cobra Verde 1987 Portrait: Werner Herzog 1986 The Dark Glow of the Mountain 1985 Where the Green Ants Dream 1984 Ballad of the Little Soldier 1984 God's Angry Man 1983 Huie's Sermon 1983 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Woyzeck 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Stroszek 1977 La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe 1977 Heart of Glass 1976 How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck 1976 No One Will Play with Me 1976 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974 The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974 Land of Silence and Darkness 1973 Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972 Fata Morgana 1972 Handicapped Future 1971 Even Dwarfs Started Small 1970 The Flying Doctors of East Africa 1970 Precautions Against Fanatics 1969 Signs of Life 1968 Last Words 1968 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz 1967 Herakles 1962
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