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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Acting
1996
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2009
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2008
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1999
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2023
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1982
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2007
asThe German
2006
asSelf
2007
asSelf
2012
asTurnlehrer
1976
asGlass Transporter
2008
asFather Umbrillo
1990
asMita / Richard
2012
asSelf (archive footage)
2021
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2014
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2021
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2022
asSelf (archive footage)
2001
asSelf
2009
asPlastic Bag (voice)
1991
asNarrator (voice)
1977
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2004
asSelf
2012
asZec Chelovek
1985
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2007
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2010
asNarrator (voice)
2011
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2024
asNarrator (voice)
1999
asSelf
1976
asSelf
2022
asNarrator (voice)
1991
asTV-Regisseur
2012
asNarrator (voice)
2010
asNarrator (voice)
1980
asSelf
1984
asSelf (voice)
1983
asThe Father
2022
asSelf (Voice)
1986
asSelf
2004
asSelf (voice)
1985
asSelf (voice)
2013
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1987
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2005
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1993
asSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
asSelf (voice)
2002
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1989
asSelf
2014
asSelf - Filmmaker
1989
asBusinger
2022
asSelf
2010
asSelf
2014
asDocumentary Filmmaker (voice)
1974
asSelf
2024
asNarrator (voice)
1982
asSelf
1990
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1991
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2000
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2010
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2005
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2005
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2007
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2012
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2012
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2014
asNeighborhood Hero
2019
asSelf
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1977
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1989
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1999
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2000
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1996
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2007
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2008
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2010
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2008
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2013
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2011
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2013
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2011
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2013
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2014
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2013
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2019
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2011
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2016
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1968
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1971
asHurenmörder
2005
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2008
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2021
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2011
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2005
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2016
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2016
asMan with One Story (uncredited)
1980
asSelf - Film Director: Nosferatu
2024
asSelf (archival footage)
1991
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1979
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1992
asSelf - Narrator (voice)
1968
asSoldier (uncredited)
1995
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2015
asPerfect Being (voice)
1998
asFace
2008
asSelf
2010
asHimself
2013
asAlexander von Humboldt
1999
asSelf
1982
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1997
asNarrator (voice)
1979
asSelf
2017
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2008
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2016
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1967
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1989
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1976
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1995
asNarrator (voice)
2004
asSelf (voice) ("Dribble" short)
2000
asSelf
2012
asSelf
1999
asFather
2018
asSelf
2018
asSelf
1984
asLawyer (uncredited)
2007
asNarrator (voice)
2020
asSelf - Narrator (voice)
2019
asSelf - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
2019
asSelf
2017
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2019
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2018
asNarrator (voice)
1975
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1993
asNarrator (voice)
2010
asNarrator (voice)
1981
asNarrator (voice)
2020
asSelf
2012
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2003
asNarrator (voice)
2018
asSelf
2020
asSelf
2020
asNarrator (voice)
2020
asThe Painter (Narrator)
1990
asSelf
2021
asSelf
1979
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2010
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2018
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2017
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2024
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2024
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2014
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2025
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1972
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1979
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1970
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1974
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1982
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2012
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1971
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1971
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2025
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1962
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2001
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2016
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2022
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2005
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2007
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2018
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