Description: Werner Herzog (born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, writer, actor, and opera director. Herzog is considered a figure of the New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature. 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. 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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Fata Morgana
( 1972 )
Footage shot in and around the Algerian Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
( 1977 )
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
( 1974 )
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...
( 1976 )
Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.
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Heart of Glass
( 1976 )
The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".
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Stroszek
( 1977 )
In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
( 1979 )
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
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Woyzeck
( 1979 )
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
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Behinderte Zukunft
( 1981 )
Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60's / early 70's.
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Glaube und Währung - Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger
( 1981 )
The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970's and 1980's, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show. Werner Herzog presents the man, his thoughts and also includes some of his...Read all
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Huie's Sermon
( 1981 )
The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.
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Signs of Life
( 1981 )
Three wounded soldiers are removed from battle and given the task of looking after a fortress in a small coastal town. However, the pressures of isolation begin to take their toll on the men.
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Fitzcarraldo
( 1982 )
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
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Where the Green Ants Dream
( 1985 )
A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
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The Dark Glow of the Mountains
( 1985 )
Film-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.
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Ballad of the Little Soldier
( 1985 )
The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
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Land of Silence and Darkness
( 1980 )
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
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Cobra Verde
( 1987 )
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
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Joan of Arc
( 1992 )
Director Werner Herzog joins forces with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly to effect a masterful rendition of this rarely performed opera involving spectacular scenes of alternating light and darkness, pageantry and intimacy.
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Herdsmen of the Sun
( 1989 )
Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.
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Echoes From a Somber Empire
( 1990 )
Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
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Scream of Stone
( 1991 )
Two famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first. As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive.
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Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
( 1995 )
Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from the 16th century.
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The Transformation of the World Into Music
( 1996 )
This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes maneuverings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
( 1998 )
German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.
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My Best Fiend
( 1999 )
The love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
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Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel
( 2000 )
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.
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Invincible
( 2002 )
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
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Lessons of Darkness
( 2002 )
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
( 2002 )
This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.
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Wheel of Time
( 2003 )
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
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The White Diamond
( 2005 )
Engineers attempt daring journey above Guyanese rainforest canopy with airship prototype. Adventure fraught with risks, as previous expedition ended tragically. This is a unique story of exploring uncharted jungle from the air.
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Grizzly Man
( 2005 )
A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.
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The Wild Blue Yonder
( 2007 )
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
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Pilgrimage (Short 2001)
( 2007 )
Documentary film accompanied only by music, it alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico.
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Herakles (Short 1962)
( 2007 )
Weight lifting men who compete to achieve individual bodily perfection through muscle building.
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Rescue Dawn
( 2007 )
A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Encounters at the End of the World
( 2008 )
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
( 2010 )
Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
( 2011 )
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.
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Into the Abyss
( 2012 )
Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
( 2012 )
A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.
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Queen of the Desert
( 2017 )
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Into the Inferno
( 2016 )
An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.
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Salt and Fire
( 2017 )
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
( 2019 )
When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin's passion for the nomadic life.
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Meeting Gorbachev
( 2019 )
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
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Family Romance, LLC
( 2020 )
A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.
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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
( 2020 )
A documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they've had on Earth.
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Orion and the Dark
( 2024 )
A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night with his new friend: a giant, smiling creature named Dark.
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Theatre of Thought
( 2022 )
Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape - the human brain - for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of fast-advancing neural technology.
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