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.
The Transformation of the World Into Music
(Self)
The Lonely
Nosferatu the Vampyre
(Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited))
The White Diamond
(Narrator (voice))
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
(Self)
My Best Fiend
(Self)
The Arc of Oblivion
(Narrator (voice))
Burden of Dreams
(Self - Filmmaker)
The Grand
(The German)
50 Films to See Before You Die
(Self)
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
(Self)
Strawberryland
(Turnlehrer)
Heart of Glass
(Glass Transporter)
Mister Lonely
(Father Umbrillo)
Hard to Be a God
(Mita / Richard)
Close Up
(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
(Self)
Plastic Bag
(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
(Self)
Jack Reacher
(Zec Chelovek)
Tokyo-Ga
(Self)
All In This Tea
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(Narrator (voice))
Into the Abyss
(Narrator (voice))
Orion and the Dark
(Narrator (voice))
A Brief History of Errol Morris
(Self)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
(Self)
Last Exit: Space
(Narrator (voice))
Scream of Stone
(TV-Regisseur)
Dinotasia
(Narrator (voice))
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
(Narrator (voice))
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
(Self)
Ballad of the Little Soldier
(Self (voice))
Man of Flowers
(The Father)
Tegoyo
(Self (Voice))
Portrait: Werner Herzog
(Self)
Dribble
(Self (voice))
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
(Self (voice))
The Unbelievers
(Self)
Location Africa
(Self)
Dreams and Burdens
(Self)
Dangerous Game
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Walking to Werner
(Self (voice))
The Boxing Prince
(Self)
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
(Self)
Life Itself
(Self - Filmmaker)
Bride of the Orient
(Businger)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
(Self)
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
(Self)
Penguins of Madagascar
(Documentary Filmmaker (voice))
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
(Self)
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
(Narrator (voice))
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
(Self)
Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
(Self)
SnowwhiteRosered
(Self)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
(Self)
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
(Self)
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
(Self)
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
(Self)
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
(Self)
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
(Self)
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
(Self)
Lemonade War
(Neighborhood Hero)
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
(Self)
Journey Through History
(Self)
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
(Self)
The Heart and the Legs
(Self)
Tales from the Opera
(Director)
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
(Self)
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
(Self)
The Last Documentary
(Self)
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
(Self)
Bierbichler
(Self)
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
(Self)
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
(Self)
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
(Self)
Champions: A Comic Tale
(Self)
On Borrowed Time
(Self)
I, I, I José Lewgoy
(Self)
Mistaken for Strangers
(Self (uncredited))
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
(Self)
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
(Self)
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
(Self)
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
(Self)
Jihad in Hollywood
(Self)
Jihad in Hollywood
(Self)
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
(Hurenmörder)
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
(Self)
Back to Room 666
(Self (archive footage))
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
(Self)
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
(Self)
Grizzly Man
(Self / Narrator (voice))
Into the Inferno
(Narrator (voice))
Salt and Fire
(Man with One Story (uncredited))
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
(Self - Film Director: Nosferatu)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
(Self (archival footage))
Film Lesson
(Self)
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
(Self)
Signs of Life
(Soldier (uncredited))
Lessons of Darkness
(Narrator (voice))
Burning Heart
Freaks of Nature
(Perfect Being (voice))
What Dreams May Come
(Face)
Capturing Reality
(Self)
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
(Himself)
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
(Alexander von Humboldt)
Wings of Hope
(Self)
Room 666
(Self)
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
(Narrator (voice))
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
(Self)
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
(Self (archive footage))
BLAST!
(Narrator (voice))
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
(Self)
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
(Narrator (voice))
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
(Self)
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
(Narrator (voice))
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
(Self (voice) ("Dribble" short))
The Ball Is a Scumbag
(Self)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
(Self)
Julien Donkey-Boy
(Father)
The Great Buster: A Celebration
(Self)
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
(Self)
Where the Green Ants Dream
(Lawyer (uncredited))
Encounters at the End of the World
(Narrator (voice))
Werner Herzog, Filmmaker
(Self)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
(Self - Narrator (voice))
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
(Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice))
Meeting Gorbachev
(Self)
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
(Self)
Tattoo Uprising
(Self)
Paradox Bullets
(Narrator (voice))
Lost in the Garden of the World
(Self)
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.
(Self)
The Killers: Unstaged
(Self)
Wheel of Time
(Narrator (voice))
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
(Self)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
(Self)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
(Narrator (voice))
The Andinist
(The Painter (Narrator))
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
(Self)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
(Self)
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
(Self (archive footage))
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
(Self)
I'm a Soldier
(Self)
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
(Self)
About a Hero
Kinski
(Self (Archive Footage))
Atari: Game Over
(Self (archival))
The Simpsons
(Walter Hotenhoffer (voice))
Sonntagsgespräch
(Self)
Okay
(Self)
The Colbert Report
The Henry Rollins Show
The Simpsons
(Werner Herzog (voice))
On Death Row
(Werner Herzog)
The U.S. and the Holocaust
(Hermann Göring)
The Simpsons
(Dr. Lund (voice))
Die Harald Schmidt Show
(Self)
Rick and Morty
(Shrimply Pibbles (voice))
Late Night with Seth Meyers
(Self)
Future States
(Plastic Bag (voice))
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(Self)
Parks and Recreation
(Keg Jennings)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
(Self)
Bayerischer Filmpreis
(Self)
Midi Première
(Self)
The Mandalorian
(The Client)
American Dad!
(Werner Herzog (voice))
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
Kulturplatz
(Self)
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
(Self - The Client)
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
(Self)
Grizzly Man
(Director)
Woyzeck
(Director)
Woyzeck
(Screenplay)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(Director)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(Producer)
Cobra Verde
(Director)
Cobra Verde
(Screenplay)
Nosferatu the Vampyre
(Director)
Nosferatu the Vampyre
(Producer)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
(Director)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
(Writer)
Even Dwarfs Started Small
(Director)
Even Dwarfs Started Small
(Screenplay)
Even Dwarfs Started Small
(Producer)
The White Diamond
(Director)
Stroszek
(Director)
Stroszek
(Screenplay)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
(Director)
The Wild Blue Yonder
(Director)
The Wild Blue Yonder
(Screenplay)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
(Director)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
(Screenplay)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
(Producer)
My Best Fiend
(Director)
My Best Fiend
(Writer)
Fitzcarraldo
(Director)
Fitzcarraldo
(Producer)
Encounters at the End of the World
(Director)
Where the Green Ants Dream
(Director)
Heart of Glass
(Director)
Heart of Glass
(Writer)
Rescue Dawn
(Author)
Rescue Dawn
(Director)
Last Exit: Space
(Executive Producer)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
(Director)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
(Director)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
(Director)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
(Screenplay)
La Bohème
(Director)
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
(Director)
God's Angry Man
(Director)
Land of Silence and Darkness
(Director)
Land of Silence and Darkness
(Screenplay)
Herakles
(Director)
Handicapped Future
(Director)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
(Director)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
(Producer)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
(Screenplay)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
(Director)
Signs of Life
(Director)
Signs of Life
(Writer)
Invincible
(Director)
Invincible
(Writer)
Lessons of Darkness
(Director)
Fata Morgana
(Director)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
(Executive Producer)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
(Director)
Into the Abyss
(Director)
Into the Abyss
(Writer)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
(Director)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
(Producer)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
(Director)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
(Writer)
Wings of Hope
(Director)
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
(Director)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(Director)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(Screenplay)
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
(Director)
Scream of Stone
(Director)
Bells from the Deep
(Director)
Bells from the Deep
(Writer)
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
(Director)
Ballad of the Little Soldier
(Director)
Ballad of the Little Soldier
(Writer)
Ballad of the Little Soldier
(Producer)
No One Will Play with Me
(Director)
Huie's Sermon
(Director)
Precautions Against Fanatics
(Director)
Queen of the Desert
(Director)
Portrait: Werner Herzog
(Director)
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
(Director)
Last Words
(Director)
Last Words
(Screenplay)
Theatre of Thought
(Director)
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
(Director)
Pilgrimage
(Director)
Ode to the Dawn of Man
(Director)
From One Second to the Next
(Director)
Giovanna d'Arco
(Director)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(Writer)
The Blimp-Maker
(Thanks)
Nosferatu the Vampyre
(Writer)
The Act of Killing
(Executive Producer)
The Transformation of the World Into Music
(Director)
El Poso
(Producer)
Flores del precipicio
(Producer)
Herakles
(Editor)
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
(Editor)
Last Words
(Producer)
Precautions Against Fanatics
(Producer)
Handicapped Future
(Producer)
Fata Morgana
(Screenplay)
Handicapped Future
(Sound Recordist)
Land of Silence and Darkness
(Producer)
Land of Silence and Darkness
(Sound Recordist)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
(Screenplay)
Theatre of Thought
(Executive Producer)
Theatre of Thought
(Screenplay)
The French as Seen by…
(Director)
The hunger in the world explained to my son
(Writer)
Tannhäuser
(Stage Director)
Handicapped Future
(Writer)
Into the Inferno
(Director)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
(Director)
Film Lesson
(Director)
Notes from a Dromedary
(Creative Consultant)
Signs of Life
(Producer)
Lessons of Darkness
(Writer)
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
(Writer)
The Look of Silence
(Executive Producer)
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
(Director)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
(Writer)
The Conquest of Mexico
(Director)
The Conquest of Mexico
(Writer)
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
(Writer)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
(Producer)
Encounters at the End of the World
(Writer)
The Transformation of the World Into Music
(Writer)
Into the Inferno
(Writer)
Wheel of Time
(Director)
Wheel of Time
(Writer)
Wheel of Time
(Producer)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
(Writer)
Wheel of Time
(Editor)
Portrait: Werner Herzog
(Writer)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
(Sound Engineer)
The Killers: Unstaged
(Director)
Wings of Hope
(Writer)
What Is It?
(Thanks)
The Arc of Oblivion
(Executive Producer)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
(Writer)
Heart of Glass
(Producer)
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
(Writer)
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
(Writer)
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
(Producer)
Where the Green Ants Dream
(Producer)
Where the Green Ants Dream
(Writer)
Lessons of Darkness
(Executive Producer)
Encounters at the End of the World
(Sound)
Love Birds
(Consulting Producer)
The whole world is country
(Consulting Producer)
Red Army
(Executive Producer)
The Devil's Muse
(Creative Consultant)
A Night Out
(Technical Advisor)
A Night Out
(Thanks)
Ode to the Dawn of Man
(Cinematography)
Ode to the Dawn of Man
(Sound)
Into the Abyss
(Producer)
The Last Scene
(Executive Producer)
The Golden Gate
(Executive Producer)
A Gray State
(Executive Producer)
The Transformation of the World Into Music
(Executive Producer)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
(Co-Producer)
Stroszek
(Producer)
Fata Morgana
(Producer)
Fata Morgana
(Sound)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
(Producer)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
(Producer)
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
(Sound Recordist)
The White Diamond
(Screenplay)
The Last Shepherd
(Thanks)
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
(Producer)
Incident at Loch Ness
(Producer)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
(Sound)
Handicapped Future
(Sound)
Precautions Against Fanatics
(Writer)
No One Will Play with Me
(Writer)
God's Angry Man
(Writer)
The Empty Goal
(Thanks)
Meeting Gorbachev
(Director)
Location Africa
(Producer)
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
(Writer)
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
(Producer)
Reeling
(Executive Producer)
The Gauls
(Director)
The End
(Executive Producer)
Queen of the Desert
(Writer)
Herakles
(Screenplay)
Herakles
(Producer)
Herakles
(Sound)
Precautions Against Fanatics
(Sound)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
(Director)
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
(Director)
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
(Writer)
Meeting Gorbachev
(Writer)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
(Writer)
Salt and Fire
(Director)
Salt and Fire
(Writer)
Salt and Fire
(Producer)
Family Romance, LLC
(Director)
Family Romance, LLC
(Writer)
Family Romance, LLC
(Director of Photography)
Invincible
(Producer)
Family Romance, LLC
(Camera Operator)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
(Writer)
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
(Screenplay)
Fitzcarraldo
(Screenplay)
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
(Stage Director)
The Twilight World
(Director)
The Twilight World
(Novel)
2000 Years of Christianity
(Director)
On Death Row
(Writer)
On Death Row
(Director)
Film Lesson
(Director)
Under the Sun
(Director)
On Death Row
(Creator)