Werner Herzog

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.

Date of Birth : 1942-09-05

Place of Birth : Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Werner Herzog

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Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere
Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht
The White Diamond
Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher
Mein liebster Feind
The Arc of Oblivion
Burden of Dreams
The Grand
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Erdbeerland
Herz aus Glas
Mister Lonely
Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein
Close Up
Hannelore Elsner - Ohne Spiel ist mir das Leben zu ernst
Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso
L'extravagante petite vie de Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Nosferatu – Ein Film wie ein Vampir
The 100 Greatest Films
Plastic Bag
Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur
La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe
Incident at Loch Ness
Jack Reacher
Tokyo-Ga
All In This Tea
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Into the Abyss
Orion and the Dark
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache
Last Exit: Space
Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein
Dinotasia
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten
Man of Flowers
Tegoyo
Werner Herzog: Filmemacher
Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg
The Unbelievers
Location Africa
Dangerous Game
Der Boxprinz
Bis ans Ende... und dann noch weiter. Die ekstatische Welt des Filmemachers Werner Herzog
Life Itself
Gekauftes Glück
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Penguins of Madagascar
Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Viaggio nella storia
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Bierbichler
Wer sich traut, reißt die Kälte vom Pferd
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Mistaken for Strangers
On Borrowed Time
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Eu eu eu José Lewgoy
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Jihad in Hollywood
Champions: Μια αστεία ιστορία
Jihad in Hollywood
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Geschichten vom Kübelkind
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
ستاره دنباله دار: سهراب شهید ثالث
Hans Zimmer - Der Sound für Hollywood
Grizzly Man
Into the Inferno
Salt and Fire
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Filmstunde
The Making of Nosferatu
Lektionen in Finsternis
Lebenszeichen
Brennendes Herz
Freaks of Nature
What Dreams May Come
Capturing Reality
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht
Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel
Chambre 666
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Was ich bin, sind meine Filme
O Homem que Matou John Wayne
BLAST!
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Wodaabe – Die Hirten der Sonne
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Tod für fünf Stimmen
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Der Ball ist ein Sauhund
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Julien Donkey-Boy
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Manaslu - Berg der Seelen
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen
Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog cineasta
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Meeting Gorbachev
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Tattoo Uprising
Paradox Bullets
Lost in the Garden of the World
Glocken aus der Tiefe
Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
The Killers: Unstaged
Rad der Zeit
Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
El Andinista
Echos aus einem düsteren Reich
Ein Leben für den Film - Lotte Eisner
Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)'
Was ich bin sind meine Filme - Teil 2... nach 30 Jahren
我是一个电影战士
Cien años con Juan Rulfo
About a Hero
Kinski
Atari: Game Over

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