Werner Herzog
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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1942-09-05
Place of birth
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Cast
The Lonely
2009
0.00
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
7.29
The White Diamond
2004
6.85
My Best Fiend
1999
7.30
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
2.00
Burden of Dreams
1982
7.57
The Grand
2007
5.90
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
8.50
Strawberryland
2012
0.00
Heart of Glass
1976
6.51
Mister Lonely
2008
6.58
Hard to Be a God
1990
6.00
Close Up
2012
9.00
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
4.80
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
5.50
Plastic Bag
2009
7.50
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
5.78
Jack Reacher
2012
6.64
Tokyo-Ga
1985
7.00
All In This Tea
2007
7.00
Into the Abyss
2011
6.90
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
7.08
Orion and the Dark
2024
6.57
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
6.75
Last Exit: Space
2022
5.70
Scream of Stone
1991
6.20
Dinotasia
2012
5.50
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980
7.00
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
6.38
Man of Flowers
1983
5.00
Tegoyo
2022
6.00
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
7.08
Dribble
2004
5.70
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
7.60
The Unbelievers
2013
6.40
Location Africa
1987
0.00
Dreams and Burdens
2005
6.00
Dangerous Game
1993
5.79
Walking to Werner
2006
0.00
The Boxing Prince
2002
5.80
Life Itself
2014
7.49
Bride of the Orient
1989
7.70
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
7.60
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
0.00
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
6.53
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
5.70
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
0.00
Lemonade War
2014
5.00
Journey Through History
1977
0.00
The Heart and the Legs
1989
0.00
The Last Documentary
2000
0.00
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
4.00
Bierbichler
2008
0.00
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
6.00
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
7.00
On Borrowed Time
2011
5.30
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
7.20
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
0.00
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
0.00
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
0.00
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1971
3.60
Back to Room 666
2008
5.50
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
0.00
Grizzly Man
2005
7.54
Into the Inferno
2016
6.98
Salt and Fire
2016
4.88
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
7.50
Film Hour
1991
5.50
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
6.30
Signs of Life
1968
6.70
Lessons of Darkness
1992
7.90
Burning Heart
1995
0.00
Freaks of Nature
2015
6.12
What Dreams May Come
1998
7.20
Capturing Reality
2008
6.10
Wings of Hope
1999
6.92
Room 666
1982
6.40
The Valley
0.00
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
7.49
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
7.50
BLAST!
2008
7.00
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
0.00
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
7.11
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
6.79
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
7.00
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
9.50
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
7.00
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
7.20
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
8.30
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
6.90
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
6.60
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
2.00
Tattoo Uprising
2019
0.00
Paradox Bullets
2018
0.00
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
0.00
Bells from the Deep
1993
6.93
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
5.00
God's Angry Man
1981
5.40
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
3.00
Wheel of Time
2003
6.40
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
7.70
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
0.00
The Andinist
2020
0.00
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
7.10
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
8.50
I'm a Soldier
2018
0.00
About a Hero
2024
0.00
Kinski
2024
7.00
Atari: Game Over
2014
6.57
Was Ist Kino ?
2025
10.00
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2025
0.00