Werner Herzog
- Directing
- September 5, 1942 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
- Bucking Fastard · Writer, Director
- Soccer Meets America · Self
- Hulk Hogan: Real American · Self
- Ghost Elephants · Self, Director
- Felicidad · Producer
- Mi casa amarilla · Consulting Editor
- Sirena
- Reeling · Executive producer
- Theater of Thought · Director, Executive producer
- The End · Executive producer
- About a Hero
- The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft · Narrator (Voice), Director
- Celebrating the Rice Media Center · Self
- Orion and the Dark · Narrator (Voice)
- The Arc of Oblivion · Narrator (Voice), Executive producer
- Notes from a Dromedary · Creative Consultant
- Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer · Self
- Tegoyo · Self
- Flores del precipicio · Producer
- Last Exit: Space · Narrator (Voice), Executive producer
- Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire · Self
- El Poso · Producer
- The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus · Self
- Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life · Self
- A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner · Self
- Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless · Self
- Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen · Self
- The Andinist · The Painter (Narrator)
- Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) · Narrator (Voice)
- Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds · Self, Director
- Wim Wenders, Desperado · Self
- Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian · Self
- AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. · (archive footage)
- The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault · (archive footage)
- The Mandalorian · The Client
- Family Romance, LLC · Writer, Cinematography
- 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre · Self
- Tattoo Uprising · Self
- Meeting Gorbachev · Self, Director
- Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin · Self, Writer
- Jihad in Hollywood · Self
- Love Birds · Consulting Producer
- The Last Scene · Executive producer
- Manaslu: Mountain of Souls · Self
- Paradox Bullets · Narrator (Voice)
- The Great Buster: A Celebration · Self
- I'm a Soldier · Self
- The Empty Goal · Thanks
- Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias · Self
- The whole world is country · Consulting Producer
- The Golden Gate · Executive producer
- One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo · Self
- Werner We Love You · Self
- A Gray State · Executive producer
- Ballad of a Righteous Merchant · Self
- The Man Who Killed John Wayne · Self
- Salt and Fire · Man with One Story (uncredited), Director
- Into the Inferno · Self, Director
- Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World · Self, Director
- The Blimp-Maker · Thanks
- Jihad in Hollywood · Self
- Freaks of Nature · Perfect Being (Voice)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Queen of the Desert · Director, Writer
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Red Army · Executive producer
- Penguins of Madagascar · Documentary Filmmaker (Voice)
- Atari: Game Over · Self
- Lemonade War · Neighborhood Hero
- The Look of Silence · Executive producer
- Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance · Self
- Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director · Self
- Life Itself · Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Unbelievers · Self
- Rick and Morty · Shrimply Pibbles (Voice)
- Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing' · Self
- An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog · Self
- Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision · Alexander von Humboldt