Werner Herzog

Directing

Born Sep 05, 1942

From 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.

Werner Herzog

Known For

Penguins of Madagascar

Jack Reacher

Orion and the Dark

What Dreams May Come

Ghost Elephants

Freaks of Nature

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

Mister Lonely

Filmography — Acting

Penguins of Madagascar

Jack Reacher

Orion and the Dark

What Dreams May Come

Ghost Elephants

Freaks of Nature

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

Mister Lonely

Close Up

The Grand

Ally

Encounters at the End of the World

Into the Abyss

My Best Fiend

Dangerous Game

Life Itself

Tokyo-Ga

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

Julien Donkey-Boy

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Room 666

50 Films to See Before You Die

Salt and Fire

The Great Buster: A Celebration

Lost in the Garden of the World

Burden of Dreams

Heart of Glass

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

Hard to Be a God

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

Handicapped Future

The Unbelievers

Scream of Stone

Atari: Game Over

Man of Flowers

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

Lessons of Darkness

The White Diamond

Where the Green Ants Dream

I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

Into the Inferno

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Dinotasia

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Signs of Life

Incident at Loch Ness

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

Meeting Gorbachev

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

Back to Room 666

Last Exit: Space

Tattoo Uprising

Lemonade War

Plastic Bag

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

SnowwhiteRosered

Wings of Hope