Werner Herzog

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.

Cast

The Transformation of the World Into Music

The White Diamond

Narrator (voice)

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

The Arc of Oblivion

Narrator (voice)

Burden of Dreams

Self - Filmmaker

50 Films to See Before You Die

Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

Glass Transporter

Father Umbrillo

Hard to Be a God

Self (archive footage)

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

Self (archive footage)

Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

Self (archive footage)

The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

Self (archive footage)

Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

Self (archive footage)

The 100 Greatest Films

Plastic Bag (voice)

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

Narrator (voice)

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

Narrator (voice)

Incident at Loch Ness

All In This Tea

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Narrator (voice)

Narrator (voice)

Orion and the Dark

Narrator (voice)

A Brief History of Errol Morris

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

Last Exit: Space

Narrator (voice)

Scream of Stone

Narrator (voice)

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Narrator (voice)

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Ballad of the Little Soldier

Portrait: Werner Herzog

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

The Unbelievers

Location Africa

Dreams and Burdens

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walking to Werner

The Boxing Prince

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

Self - Filmmaker

Bride of the Orient

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

Werner Herzog Defends Dade

Penguins of Madagascar

Documentary Filmmaker (voice)

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

Narrator (voice)

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

SnowwhiteRosered

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

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

Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space

Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest

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

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

Neighborhood Hero

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

Journey Through History

Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog

The Heart and the Legs

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

The Last Documentary

Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

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

Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

Champions: A Comic Tale

On Borrowed Time

I, I, I José Lewgoy

Mistaken for Strangers

Self (uncredited)

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog

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

Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director

Jihad in Hollywood

Jihad in Hollywood

Die Erben von Papas Kino

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

Back to Room 666

Self (archive footage)

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless

Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

Self / Narrator (voice)

Into the Inferno

Man with One Story (uncredited)

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

Self - Film Director: Nosferatu

Celebrating the Rice Media Center

Self (archival footage)

The Making of 'Nosferatu'

Soldier (uncredited)

Lessons of Darkness

Self - Narrator (voice)

Freaks of Nature

Perfect Being (voice)

What Dreams May Come

Capturing Reality

The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

Alexander von Humboldt

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Narrator (voice)

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

The Man Who Killed John Wayne

Self (archive footage)

Narrator (voice)

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Neuer Deutscher Film Report

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

Narrator (voice)

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

Narrator (voice)

The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)

The Ball Is a Scumbag

10 Questions for Werner Herzog

Julien Donkey-Boy

The Great Buster: A Celebration

Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

Where the Green Ants Dream

Lawyer (uncredited)

Encounters at the End of the World

Narrator (voice)

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

Self - Narrator (voice)

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)

Meeting Gorbachev

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

Tattoo Uprising

Paradox Bullets

Narrator (voice)

Lost in the Garden of the World

Bells from the Deep

Narrator (voice)

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

Narrator (voice)

God's Angry Man

Narrator (voice)

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

(archive footage)

The Killers: Unstaged

Narrator (voice)

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

Narrator (voice)

The Painter (Narrator)

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

Self (archive footage)

Atari: Game Over

Self (archival)

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

(archive footage)

Ghost Elephants

Narrator (voice)

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Director, Producer, Writer

Director, Screenplay

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Director, Producer, Writer

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

Director, Writer

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Director, Screenplay, Producer

The White Diamond

Director, Screenplay

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

The Wild Blue Yonder

Director, Screenplay

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Director, Writer

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Encounters at the End of the World

Director, Writer, Sound

Where the Green Ants Dream

Director, Producer, Writer

Director, Writer, Producer

Author, Director

Last Exit: Space

Executive Producer

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

Director, Writer, Co-Producer

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

Director, Screenplay, Producer

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Director, Screenplay

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

Director, Editor, Screenplay

God's Angry Man

Director, Writer

Land of Silence and Darkness

Director, Screenplay, Producer, Sound Recordist

Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer, Sound

Handicapped Future

Director, Producer, Sound Recordist, Writer, Sound

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

Director, Producer, Screenplay

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

Director, Sound Engineer, Producer

Director, Writer, Producer

Director, Writer, Producer

Lessons of Darkness

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

Director, Screenplay, Producer, Sound

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Director, Writer

Director, Writer, Producer

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

Director, Producer, Sound

Director, Writer

The Flying Doctors of East Africa

Director, Writer, Sound Recordist

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Director, Screenplay

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

Director, Writer, Producer

Scream of Stone

Bells from the Deep

Director, Writer

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

Director, Writer, Producer

Ballad of the Little Soldier

Director, Writer, Producer

No One Will Play with Me

Director, Writer

Precautions Against Fanatics

Director, Producer, Writer, Sound

Queen of the Desert

Director, Writer

Portrait: Werner Herzog

Director, Writer

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

Director, Writer, Producer

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Theater of Thought

Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

Director, Writer

Ode to the Dawn of Man

Director, Cinematography, Sound

From One Second to the Next

Giovanna d'Arco

The Blimp-Maker

The Act of Killing

Executive Producer

The Transformation of the World Into Music

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

Flores del precipicio

The French as Seen by…

The hunger in the world explained to my son

Into the Inferno

Director, Writer

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Director, Producer, Writer

Notes from a Dromedary

Creative Consultant

The Look of Silence

Executive Producer

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

The Killers: Unstaged

The Arc of Oblivion

Executive Producer

Consulting Producer

The whole world is country

Consulting Producer

Executive Producer

The Devil's Muse

Creative Consultant

Technical Advisor, Thanks

Executive Producer

The Golden Gate

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Last Shepherd

Incident at Loch Ness

Meeting Gorbachev

Director, Writer

Location Africa

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

Director, Writer

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Director, Writer

Director, Writer, Producer

Family Romance, LLC

Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator

Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera

The Twilight World

Director, Novel

La Donna del Lago

Bucking Fastard

Writer, Director

Ghost Elephants

Director, Writer

Ten Thousand Years Older

Director, Screenplay

Mi casa amarilla

Consulting Editor