Werner Herzog

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Sep 05, 1942 (82 years old)

Werner Herzog

Known For

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
8h 25m
Movie 2025

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including two that have only ever been available theatrically.

Was Ist Kino ?
0h 11m
Movie 2025

Was Ist Kino ?

A "tribute" from Adam Bensoltane to his idols

About a Hero
1h 24m
Movie 2024

About a Hero

After a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect…

The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
1h 25m
Movie 2024

The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

Filmmaker Werner Herzog combs through the film archives of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft to create a film that celebrates their legacy.

Celebrating the Rice Media Center
0h 45m
Movie 2024

Celebrating the Rice Media Center

Through the Fondren Fellows program, the Rice Media Center Archive Project has spent the past few months sifting through material stored at the now-defunct Rice Media Center. The team has identified several films as especially notable and will be presenting them in conjunction with documentary footage the team shot of people involved with the films. From lectures featuring Roberto Rossellini and Werner Herzog to films from former Rice students and faculty, the film presentation will tell the narrative of the Rice Media Center through the films and filmmakers that passed through its corridors.

Kinski
0h 24m
Movie 2024

Kinski

Documentary film about the turbulent life and career of actor Klaus Kinski, a man whose genius was often overshadowed by his erratic behavior and intense personal struggles.

Orion and the Dark
1h 30m
Movie 2024

Orion and the Dark

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.

The Arc of Oblivion
1h 38m
Movie 2023

The Arc of Oblivion

"The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield - to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara - to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
1h 30m
Movie 2022

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist.

Tegoyo
0h 8m
Movie 2022

Tegoyo

In 1968 legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog shot in the island of Lanzarote his film Even Dwarfs Started Small. Fifty years later a rather peculiar scientist recovers haunting sounds from an unearthly past.

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.

Acting

2025
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2025
Was Ist Kino ?
2024
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
Kinski
2024
Orion and the Dark
2023
The Arc of Oblivion
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Tegoyo
2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
Last Exit: Space
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2021
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
The Andinist
2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2019
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
2018
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
Paradox Bullets
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
I'm a Soldier
2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2017
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2016
Salt and Fire
2016
Into the Inferno
2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Jihad in Hollywood
2014
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
Lemonade War
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2013
The Unbelievers
2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2012
Strawberryland
2012
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
On Death Row
2011
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2011
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
On Borrowed Time
2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
1991
Film Hour
1991
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
Scream of Stone
1990
Hard to Be a God
1990
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1989
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
The Heart and the Legs
1987
Location Africa
1986
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountain

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