Werner Herzog

Known for DirectingBorn 1942-09-05 (age 83) Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

The Empty Goal

The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space

The Last Documentary

Close Up

10 Questions for Werner Herzog

The Last Shepherd

Bride of the Orient

Spécial cinéma

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

Burning Heart

Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera

Rick and Morty

Midi Première

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

Neuer Deutscher Film Report

The Mandalorian

50 Films to See Before You Die

The Ball Is a Scumbag

Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further

The Transformation of the World Into Music

The Boondocks

Parks and Recreation

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Hulk Hogan: Real American

The Look of Silence

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

La Donna del Lago

Wim Wenders, Desperado

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

The Simpsons

The Gauls

The Act of Killing

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

Lessons of Darkness

The Man Who Killed John Wayne

Metalocalypse

Life Itself

Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Plastic Bag

Grizzly Man

Encounters at the End of the World

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

Red Army