Werner Herzog

Directing · 2.3 popularity

Age

Movies

160

Born: September 5, 1942
From: Munich, Allemagne
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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.

Works

160 films

Jack Reacher

20126.7

Penguins of Madagascar

20146.5

Orion and the Dark

20246.5

What Dreams May Come

19987.2

Ghost Elephants

20267.7

The Andinist

2020

Grizzly Man

20057.5

Freaks of Nature

20156.1

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

20206.5

Where the Green Ants Dream

19846.9

Encounters at the End of the World

20077.5

SnowwhiteRosered

19916.0

The Grand

20075.8

I, I, I José Lewgoy

20117.0

50 Films to See Before You Die

20068.4

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

20227.9

My Best Fiend

19997.3

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

20172.0

Heart of Glass

19766.5

The Great Buster: A Celebration

20187.2

Lessons of Darkness

19927.9

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

20107.1

Tokyo-Ga

19857.1

The Unbelievers

20136.4

Lost in the Garden of the World

1975

Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

20074.0

Burning Heart

19959.0

Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

20224.8

Signs of Life

19686.6

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

Salt and Fire

20164.9

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

19907.2

Dangerous Game

19935.7

Dinotasia

20125.5

Bride of the Orient

19899.5

Hard to Be a God

19906.0

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

20166.6

Strawberryfields

2012

Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

2020

The Lonely

2009

Werner We Love You

20178.5

Life Itself

20147.5

Julien Donkey-Boy

19997.0

Into the Abyss

20116.9

Close Up

20129.5

The Dark Glow of the Mountains

19857.6

Scream of Stone

19916.3

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

20107.3

Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

19916.4

Ballad of the Little Soldier

19846.6

Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

2026

Paradox Bullets

2018

The Making of 'Nosferatu'

19796.3

God's Angry Man

19835.7

Into the Inferno

20167.0

Room 666

19856.6

Last Exit: Space

20226.8

Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe

2010

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

19887.0

Atari: Game Over

20146.6

Handicapped Future

19716.8

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

19969.0

Mister Lonely

20086.6

Wheel of Time

20036.4

Wim Wenders, Desperado

20207.7

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

19743.9

Burden of Dreams

19827.6

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

2010

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

20247.7

Tattoo Uprising

2019

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

20218.5

Sirena

2025

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

20086.7

In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

19998.0

Bells from the Deep

19937.1

Portrait: Werner Herzog

19867.1

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

20137.4

The 100 Greatest Films

20015.5

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

20197.0

Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

20078.0

Ally

2026

Incident at Loch Ness

20045.9

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

2020

Jihad in Hollywood

20191.0

Tegoyo

20226.0

BLAST!

20087.0

About a Hero

20245.5

Plastic Bag

20097.5

A Brief History of Errol Morris

19996.8

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

19807.5

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

19977.5

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless

2021

Wings of Hope

19997.0

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

19956.8

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

2019

Dribble

20046.8

Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space

200510.0

The Heart and the Legs

1989

The Ball Is a Scumbag

20008.5

Meeting Gorbachev

20196.5

Journey Through History

1977

Jihad in Hollywood

2016

Neuer Deutscher Film Report

19679.0

Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

20188.3

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

19798.0

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

20105.0

Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

20113.5

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

20137.7

The Transformation of the World Into Music

19968.3

On Borrowed Time

20115.3

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

2000

Man of Flowers

19835.2

Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director

2014

Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog

2026

Die Erben von Papas Kino

1968

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

19766.4

The White Diamond

20046.9

The Killers: Unstaged

20123.0

10 Questions for Werner Herzog

20129.5

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

19747.2

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

20085.0

The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

201010.0

Lemonade War

20145.0

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

2014

The Man Who Killed John Wayne

20177.5

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

19777.3

I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

2010

Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

2013

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

19897.3

Location Africa

19877.0

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

19797.0

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

2017

Back to Room 666

20085.5

All In This Tea

20077.4

Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest

2007

Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

2021

I'm a Soldier

2018

The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

2021

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

2005

Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

2005

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

1976

Champions: A Comic Tale

20116.0

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

2012

Capturing Reality

20086.1

The Boxing Prince

20026.5

The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

2004

Werner Herzog Defends Dade

2010

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

20185.5

Walking to Werner

2006

An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog

2013

Celebrating the Rice Media Center

2024

The Arc of Oblivion

20232.0

Bierbichler

2008

The Last Documentary

200010.0

Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son

2010

Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"

1990

Dreams and Burdens

20056.0

No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon

2012

To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further

19898.5

Mistaken for Strangers

20137.2