Werner Herzog
Directing
- Born:
- 1942-09-05
- Place of birth:
- 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
Ally
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
Soccer Meets America
Hulk Hogan: Real American
Ghost Elephants
Sirena
About a Hero
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Orion and the Dark
The Arc of Oblivion
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Tegoyo
Last Exit: Space
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
The Andinist
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
The Mandalorian
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Tattoo Uprising
Meeting Gorbachev
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Jihad in Hollywood
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Paradox Bullets
The Great Buster: A Celebration
I'm a Soldier
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Werner We Love You
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Salt and Fire
Into the Inferno
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Jihad in Hollywood
Freaks of Nature
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Penguins of Madagascar
Atari: Game Over
Lemonade War
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Life Itself
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Unbelievers
Rick and Morty
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Mistaken for Strangers
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Jack Reacher
Strawberryfields
Close Up
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
The Killers: Unstaged
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Dinotasia
On Death Row
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Into the Abyss
On Borrowed Time
Champions: A Comic Tale
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Plastic Bag
The Lonely
Parks and Recreation
Capturing Reality
Encounters at the End of the World
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
BLAST!
Bierbichler
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Mister Lonely
Back to Room 666
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
The Grand
All In This Tea
Metalocalypse
50 Films to See Before You Die
Walking to Werner
The Henry Rollins Show
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
The Boondocks
The Colbert Report
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
Grizzly Man
Dreams and Burdens
American Dad!
Incident at Loch Ness
The White Diamond
Kulturplatz
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Dribble
Wheel of Time
The Boxing Prince
The 100 Greatest Films
The Last Documentary
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Wings of Hope
Julien Donkey-Boy
A Brief History of Errol Morris
My Best Fiend
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
What Dreams May Come
Sternstunde Philosophie
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Storyville
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Burning Heart
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
Dangerous Game
Bells from the Deep
Lessons of Darkness
Film Lesson
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
SnowwhiteRosered
Scream of Stone
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Hard to Be a God
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
The Simpsons
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Bride of the Orient
The Heart and the Legs
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Location Africa
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Tokyo-Ga
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Room 666
Sonntagsgespräch
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Where the Green Ants Dream
Man of Flowers
God's Angry Man
Burden of Dreams
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Bavarian Film Awards
Okay
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
The South Bank Show
Ciné regards
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Journey Through History
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Heart of Glass
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Lost in the Garden of the World
Midi Première
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Spécial cinéma
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Handicapped Future
60 Minutes
Signs of Life
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Grimme Award
German Film Award
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy