Werner Herzog

Birthday: 1942-09-05
Birthplace: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Gender: Male
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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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Credits

Year Title Character
Tales from the Opera Director
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
2024-11-14 About a Hero
2016-12-07 Salt and Fire Man with One Story (uncredited)
2015-10-30 Freaks of Nature Perfect Being (voice)
2014-11-22 Penguins of Madagascar Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
2014-09-30 Lemonade War Neighborhood Hero
2013-10-03 Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision Alexander von Humboldt
2012-12-20 Jack Reacher Zec Chelovek
2012-11-02 Strawberryland Turnlehrer
2009-09-07 Plastic Bag Plastic Bag (voice)
2009-04-16 The Lonely
2008-02-02 Mister Lonely Father Umbrillo
2007-06-07 The Grand The German
2007-04-14 All In This Tea
1999-10-15 Julien Donkey-Boy Father
1998-10-02 What Dreams May Come Face
1995-01-25 Burning Heart
1991-10-03 Scream of Stone TV-Regisseur
1990-01-25 Hard to Be a God Mita / Richard
1989-03-02 Bride of the Orient Businger
1984-08-31 Where the Green Ants Dream Lawyer (uncredited)
1983-09-22 Man of Flowers The Father
1979-01-17 Nosferatu the Vampyre Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)
1976-11-12 Heart of Glass Glass Transporter
1971-04-02 Tales of the Dumpster Kid Hurenmörder
1968-07-05 Signs of Life Soldier (uncredited)
1968-06-30 Die Erben von Papas Kino
1967-01-01 Neuer Deutscher Film Report