
Director
Werner Herzog
Born September 5, 1942 in Munich, Allemagne75 films
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.
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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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75 films as director- TBAThe Twilight WorldDirector
- 2026Bucking FastardDirector
- 2026Ghost ElephantsDirector
- 2024Theater of ThoughtDirector
- 2024The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice KrafftDirector
- 2020Fireball: Visitors from Darker WorldsDirector
- 2019Family Romance, LLCDirector
- 2019Meeting GorbachevDirector
- 2019Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce ChatwinDirector
- 2016Salt and FireDirector
- 2016Into the InfernoDirector
- 2016Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected WorldDirector
- 2015Queen of the DesertDirector
- 2013From One Second to the NextDirector
- 2012The Killers: UnstagedDirector
- 2011Into the AbyssDirector
- 2011Ode to the Dawn of ManDirector
- 2010Cave of Forgotten DreamsDirector
- 2010Happy People: A Year in the TaigaDirector
- 2010My Son, My Son, What Have Ye DoneDirector
- 2009Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansDirector
- 2009La BohèmeDirector
- 2007Encounters at the End of the WorldDirector
- 2007Rescue DawnDirector
- 2005The Wild Blue YonderDirector
- 2005Grizzly ManDirector
- 2004The White DiamondDirector
- 2003Wheel of TimeDirector
- 2002Ten Thousand Years OlderDirector
- 2002Ten Minutes Older: The TrumpetDirector
- 2001InvincibleDirector
- 2001PilgrimageDirector
- 1999Wings of HopeDirector
- 1999My Best FiendDirector
- 1997Little Dieter Needs to FlyDirector
- 1996The Transformation of the World Into MusicDirector
- 1995Gesualdo: Death for Five VoicesDirector
- 1993Bells from the DeepDirector
- 1992La Donna del LagoDirector
- 1992Lessons of DarknessDirector
- 1991Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of UdaipurDirector
- 1991Scream of StoneDirector
- 1990Echoes from a Sombre EmpireDirector
- 1989Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the SunDirector
- 1989Giovanna d'ArcoDirector
- 1988The French as Seen by…Director
- 1988The GaulsDirector
- 1987Cobra VerdeDirector
- 1986Portrait: Werner HerzogDirector
- 1985The Dark Glow of the MountainsDirector
- 1984Ballad of the Little SoldierDirector
- 1984Where the Green Ants DreamDirector
- 1983God's Angry ManDirector
- 1983Huie's SermonDirector
- 1982FitzcarraldoDirector
- 1979WoyzeckDirector
- 1979Nosferatu the VampyreDirector
- 1977La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable CatastropheDirector
- 1977StroszekDirector
- 1976Heart of GlassDirector
- 1976How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck ChuckDirector
- 1976No One Will Play with MeDirector
- 1974The Enigma of Kaspar HauserDirector
- 1974The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver SteinerDirector
- 1972Aguirre, the Wrath of GodDirector
- 1972Fata MorganaDirector
- 1971Land of Silence and DarknessDirector
- 1971Even Dwarfs Started SmallDirector
- 1971Handicapped FutureDirector
- 1970The Flying Doctors of East AfricaDirector
- 1969Precautions Against FanaticsDirector
- 1968Signs of LifeDirector
- 1968Last WordsDirector
- 1967The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress DeutschkreuzDirector
- 1962HeraklesDirector







