Directing
Werner Herzog
SV, IT, KO, ES cinema · 223 credits
Born
5 September 1942 (age 84)
Birthplace
Munich, Allemagne
Also known as 韋納荷索 · Werner Herzog Stipetić · Вернер Херцог · 베르네 헤어조크 · ورنر هرتزوگ · 沃纳·赫尔佐格
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
Ally
as (voice)
The Twilight World
Director, Novel
Ghost Elephants
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer, Screenplay
Bucking Fastard
Writer, Director, Producer
Reeling
Executive Producer
Felicidad
Producer
Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
as Self (archival footage)
Theater of Thought
Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
The End
Executive Producer
The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
El Poso
Producer
Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
as Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as Narrator (voice)
The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
Meeting Gorbachev
as Self, Director, Writer
Tattoo Uprising
as Self
Love Birds
2019
Love Birds
Consulting Producer
The Last Scene
Executive Producer
Family Romance, LLC
Writer, Director of Photography, Director, Camera Operator
Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)
Tutto il mondo è paese
2018
The whole world is country
Consulting Producer
The Golden Gate
2018
The Golden Gate
Executive Producer
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self (archive footage)
A Gray State
Executive Producer
Into the Inferno
as Self, Director, Writer
Salt and Fire
as Man with One Story (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
as Self, Director, Producer, Writer
Freaks of Nature
as Perfect Being (voice)
Queen of the Desert
Director, Writer
Red Army
Executive Producer
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
as Self - Filmmaker
Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Lemonade War
2014
Lemonade War
as Neighborhood Hero
Atari: Game Over
as Self (archival)
The Look of Silence
Executive Producer
The Unbelievers
as Self
Mistaken for Strangers
as Self (uncredited)
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Alexander von Humboldt
Strawberryfields
as Turnlehrer
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Reacher
as Zec Chelovek
Dinotasia
as Narrator (voice)
The Killers: Unstaged
as Self, Director
The Act of Killing
Executive Producer
Into the Abyss
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
On Borrowed Time
as Self
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Director, Sound, Cinematography
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (voice), Screenplay, Director
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
as Narrator (voice), Executive Producer, Director, Writer
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
as Narrator (voice)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Director, Screenplay
A Night Out
2010
A Night Out
Thanks, Technical Advisor
Plastic Bag
as Plastic Bag (voice)
La Bohème
Director
Mister Lonely
as Father Umbrillo
Back to Room 666
2008
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
BLAST!
as Narrator (voice)
Encounters at the End of the World
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Sound
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
Stage Director
The Grand
as The German
Rescue Dawn
Director, Author
The Devil's Muse
Creative Consultant
Walking to Werner
2006
Walking to Werner
as Self (voice)
Grizzly Man
as Self / Narrator (voice), Director
The Wild Blue Yonder
Screenplay, Director
What Is It?
Thanks
The White Diamond
as Narrator (voice), Director, Screenplay
Incident at Loch Ness
as Self, Producer
Dribble
2004
Dribble
as Self (voice)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Wheel of Time
as Narrator (voice), Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Director, Writer
Ten Thousand Years Older
Director, Screenplay
Invincible
Writer, Director, Producer
Pilgrimage
Director
Tannhäuser
Stage Director
My Best Fiend
as Self, Director, Writer
Wings of Hope
as Self, Director, Writer
Julien Donkey-Boy
as Father
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
The Transformation of the World Into Music
as Self, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Dangerous Game
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bells from the Deep
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Lessons of Darkness
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
as Narrator (voice), Producer, Director, Screenplay
Scream of Stone
as TV-Regisseur, Director
SnowwhiteRosered
as Self
Hard to Be a God
as Mita / Richard
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
as Self, Director, Producer, Writer
Bride of the Orient
as Businger
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Co-Producer
Giovanna d'Arco
Director
The Gauls
Director
Location Africa
as Self, Producer
Cobra Verde
Screenplay, Director
Portrait: Werner Herzog
as Self, Director, Writer
Tokyo-Ga
as Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
as Self (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Room 666
as Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
as Self (voice), Producer, Writer, Director
Where the Green Ants Dream
as Lawyer (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
Man of Flowers
as The Father
God's Angry Man
as Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Huie's Sermon
Director
Burden of Dreams
as Self - Filmmaker
Fitzcarraldo
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
as Self, Writer
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Woyzeck
Director, Screenplay
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Producer, Director, Writer
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
as Narrator (voice), Director, Sound Engineer, Producer
Stroszek
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Heart of Glass
as Glass Transporter, Director, Writer, Producer
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
as Self, Producer, Director, Sound
No One Will Play with Me
Director, Writer
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
as Self, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as Hurenmörder
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Director, Producer, Writer
Fata Morgana
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Sound
Handicapped Future
as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited), Director, Sound Recordist, Producer, Writer, Sound
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Land of Silence and Darkness
Director, Screenplay, Sound Recordist, Producer
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Director, Writer, Sound Recordist, Producer
Precautions Against Fanatics
Director, Producer, Writer, Sound
Signs of Life
as Soldier (uncredited), Writer, Director, Producer
Last Words
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Director, Editor, Screenplay
Herakles
Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer, Sound