Werner Herzog
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1942-09-05
Place of Birth
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Jul 21, 1996
The Lonely
Apr 16, 2009
The White Diamond
Nov 13, 2004
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Feb 11, 2008
My Best Fiend
May 17, 1999
The Arc of Oblivion
Mar 18, 2023
Burden of Dreams
Oct 01, 1982
The Grand
Jun 07, 2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
Jul 22, 2006
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Nov 20, 2007
Strawberryland
Nov 02, 2012
Heart of Glass
Nov 12, 1976
Mister Lonely
Feb 02, 2008
Hard to Be a God
Jan 25, 1990
Close Up
Sep 30, 2012
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Sep 10, 2014
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Apr 25, 2021
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Sep 25, 2021
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Mar 09, 2022
The 100 Greatest Films
Nov 24, 2001
Plastic Bag
Sep 07, 2009
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Nov 10, 1991
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Oct 01, 1977
Incident at Loch Ness
Dec 17, 2004
Jack Reacher
Dec 20, 2012
Tokyo-Ga
Apr 24, 1985
All In This Tea
Apr 14, 2007
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Nov 03, 2010
Into the Abyss
Nov 11, 2011
Orion and the Dark
Feb 01, 2024
A Brief History of Errol Morris
Sep 01, 1999
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Oct 30, 1976
Last Exit: Space
Mar 10, 2022
Scream of Stone
Oct 03, 1991
Dinotasia
May 04, 2012
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Sep 03, 2010
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Nov 19, 1980
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Nov 05, 1984
Man of Flowers
Sep 22, 1983
Tegoyo
Oct 06, 2022
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Mar 27, 1986
Dribble
Jan 19, 2004
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Mar 09, 1985
The Unbelievers
Dec 13, 2013
Location Africa
Feb 28, 1987
Dreams and Burdens
May 10, 2005
Dangerous Game
Oct 13, 1993
Walking to Werner
Apr 24, 2006
The Boxing Prince
Jan 24, 2002
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Feb 13, 1989
Life Itself
Jul 04, 2014
Bride of the Orient
Mar 02, 1989
Werner Herzog - Radikaler Träumer
Oct 27, 2022
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Dec 01, 2010
Penguins of Madagascar
Nov 22, 2014
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Jan 01, 1974
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
May 09, 2024
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
May 16, 1982
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
Jan 22, 1990
SnowwhiteRosered
Oct 24, 1991
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
May 21, 2000
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
Jul 09, 2010
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
Oct 08, 2005
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
Nov 22, 2005
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Jun 24, 2007
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Mar 03, 2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
May 25, 2012
Lemonade War
Sep 30, 2014
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Aug 07, 2019
Journey Through History
Jan 01, 1977
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
The Heart and the Legs
Mar 01, 1989
Tales from the Opera
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Oct 19, 1996
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Apr 04, 1999
The Last Documentary
Oct 25, 2000
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Sep 08, 2007
Bierbichler
Mar 13, 2008
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
May 18, 2008
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Oct 18, 2010
Champions: A Comic Tale
Mar 15, 2011
On Borrowed Time
Nov 04, 2011
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Nov 25, 2011
Mistaken for Strangers
Sep 19, 2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
May 07, 2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Nov 01, 2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Nov 25, 2013
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Aug 08, 2014
Jihad in Hollywood
Apr 01, 2019
Jihad in Hollywood
Jan 01, 2016
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Jun 30, 1968
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Apr 02, 1971
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Dec 26, 2005
Back to Room 666
Feb 02, 2008
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Feb 12, 2021
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Mar 14, 2011
Grizzly Man
Jul 28, 2005
Into the Inferno
Sep 07, 2016
Salt and Fire
Dec 07, 2016
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Oct 12, 1980
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Apr 19, 2024
Film Hour
Dec 20, 1991
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Oct 06, 1979
Signs of Life
Jul 05, 1968
Lessons of Darkness
Feb 21, 1992
Burning Heart
Jan 25, 1995
Freaks of Nature
Oct 30, 2015
What Dreams May Come
Oct 02, 1998
Capturing Reality
Nov 01, 2008
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Apr 06, 2010
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Oct 03, 2013
Wings of Hope
Oct 20, 1999
Room 666
Jun 02, 1982
The Valley
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Dec 01, 1997
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Apr 18, 1979
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Jan 20, 2017
BLAST!
Apr 22, 2008
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Mar 04, 2016
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Jan 01, 1967
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Jun 12, 1989
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Dec 02, 1976
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Jun 06, 1995
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Aug 31, 2004
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Jan 01, 2000
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Sep 19, 2012
Julien Donkey-Boy
Oct 15, 1999
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Oct 05, 2018
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Dec 13, 2018
Where the Green Ants Dream
Aug 31, 1984
Encounters at the End of the World
Sep 01, 2007
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Sep 10, 2020
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Apr 28, 2019
Meeting Gorbachev
May 03, 2019
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Aug 01, 2017
Tattoo Uprising
Jul 12, 2019
Paradox Bullets
Oct 07, 2018
Lost in the Garden of the World
Jun 02, 1975
Bells from the Deep
Sep 07, 1993
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
Sep 13, 2010
God's Angry Man
May 17, 1981
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Apr 22, 2020
The Killers: Unstaged
Sep 18, 2012
Wheel of Time
Oct 30, 2003
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Feb 17, 2018
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Jul 16, 2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Nov 20, 2020
The Andinist
Nov 25, 2020
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Nov 28, 1990
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Feb 24, 2021
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Apr 10, 1979
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Jun 28, 2010
I'm a Soldier
Aug 10, 2018
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Nov 03, 2017
About a Hero
Nov 14, 2024
Kinski
Apr 15, 2024
Atari: Game Over
Nov 19, 2014
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Mar 25, 2025
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
Sonntagsgespräch
Feb 10, 1985
Okay
Nov 04, 1979
The Colbert Report
Oct 17, 2005
The Henry Rollins Show
Apr 01, 2006
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
On Death Row
Mar 09, 2012
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Sep 18, 2022
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Dec 05, 1995
Rick and Morty
Dec 02, 2013
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Future States
Mar 05, 2010
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Parks and Recreation
Apr 09, 2009
Spécial cinéma
Sep 25, 1974
Deutscher Filmpreis
Jan 01, 1951
Grimme Awards Ceremony
Jan 16, 1964
Bayerischer Filmpreis
Dec 01, 1979
Midi Première
Jan 06, 1975
The Mandalorian
Nov 12, 2019
American Dad!
Feb 06, 2005
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Kulturplatz
Sep 01, 2004
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
May 04, 2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Dec 31, 2020
