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Werner Herzog

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.

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2000

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1999

Director, Writer

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1999

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Little Dieter Needs to Fly

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1997

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1996

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1995

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1993

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1992

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1992

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Film Hour

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1991

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1991

Screenplay, Director, Producer

Scream of Stone

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1991

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Echoes from a Sombre Empire

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1990

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Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

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1989

Director, Writer, Co-Producer

Under the Sun

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1989

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1989

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1988

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Cobra Verde

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1987

Director, Screenplay

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1987

Producer

Portrait: Werner Herzog

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1986

Director, Writer

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

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1985

Director, Producer, Writer

Ballad of the Little Soldier

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1984

Writer, Director, Producer

Where the Green Ants Dream

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1984

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Fitzcarraldo

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1982

Director, Producer, Screenplay

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1981

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1979

Director, Producer, Writer

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1977

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1977

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Heart of Glass

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1976

Writer, Director, Producer

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1976

Director, Producer, Sound

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1976

Director, Writer

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1974

Producer, Director, Screenplay

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1974

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

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1972

Producer, Director, Writer

Land of Silence and Darkness

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1971

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Fata Morgana

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1971

Director, Screenplay, Sound, Producer

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1971

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Even Dwarfs Started Small

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1970

Producer, Screenplay, Director

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1970

Director, Writer, Sound Recordist

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1969

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1968

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1968

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1962

Director, Editor, Sound, Screenplay, Producer

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Writer

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Director, Novel

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Writer, Director

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The Ghost Elephants

Director

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