Werner Herzog
Directing
Born September 5, 1942 · Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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.
Directed (75)
Ghost Elephants
2026
Theater of Thought
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Family Romance, LLC
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Salt and Fire
2016
Into the Inferno
2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
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
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009
La Bohème
2009
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Rescue Dawn
2007
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
Grizzly Man
2005
The White Diamond
2004
Wheel of Time
2003
Ten Thousand Years Older
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Invincible
2001
Pilgrimage
2001
Wings of Hope
1999
My Best Fiend
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
La Donna del Lago
1992
Lessons of Darkness
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
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
God's Angry Man
1983
Huie's Sermon
1983
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Woyzeck
1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Stroszek
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
The Twilight World
Bucking Fastard
Acting (155)
Ghost Elephants
2026
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
Kinski
2024
Orion and the Dark
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Tegoyo
2022
Last Exit: Space
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
The Andinist
2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
Tattoo Uprising
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
