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Werner Herzog

German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942)

Born 1942 · Germany · Active 1962–2026 · 69 films

Filmography

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Ghost Elephants
Herakles — 1962 · shot by Jamie Pacheco
Game in the Sand — 1964 · shot by Jamie Pacheco
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz — 1966 · shot by Jaime Pacheco
Last Words — 1967 · shot by Thomas Mauch
Precautions Against Fanatics — 1968 · shot by Dietrich Lohmann
Signs of Life — 1968 · shot by Thomas Mauch
The Flying Doctors of East Africa — 1969 · shot by Thomas Mauch
Even Dwarfs Started Small — 1970 · shot by Thomas Mauch
Fata Morgana — 1970 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Land of Silence and Darkness — 1971 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Handicapped Future — 1971 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Aguirre, the Wrath of God — 1972 · shot by Thomas Mauch
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser — 1974 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner — 1974 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Heart of Glass — 1976 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck — 1976 · shot by Thomas Mauch
No One Will Play with Me — 1976 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Stroszek — 1977 · shot by Thomas Mauch
La Soufrière — 1977 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Nosferatu the Vampyre — 1979 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Woyzeck — 1979 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
God's Angry Man — 1981 · shot by Thomas Mauch
Huie's Sermon — 1981 · shot by Thomas Mauch
Fitzcarraldo — 1982 · shot by Thomas Mauch
Where the Green Ants Dream — 1984 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
The Dark Glow of the Mountains — 1984 · shot by Rainer Klausmann
Ballad of the Little Soldier — 1984
Portrait Werner Herzog — 1986 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Cobra Verde — 1987 · shot by Thomas Mauch
The French as Seen By... — 1988
Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun — 1989 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Echoes from a Somber Empire — 1990 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Scream of Stone — 1991 · shot by Rainer Klausmann
Jag Mandir — 1991
Lessons of Darkness — 1992
Bells from the Deep — 1993 · shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
The Transformation of the World into Music — 1994
Death for Five Voices — 1995 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Little Dieter Needs to Fly — 1997 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
My Best Fiend — 1999 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Christ and Demons in New Spain — 2000 · shot by Edward Lachman
Wings of Hope — 2000 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Invincible — 2001 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Pilgrimage — 2001
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet — 2002 · shot by Frederick Elmes
Ten Thousand Years Older — 2002
Wheel of Time — 2003 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
The White Diamond — 2004
Grizzly Man — 2005 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Rescue Dawn — 2006 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Encounters at the End of the World — 2007 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans — 2009 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? — 2009 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
La bohème — 2009
Cave of Forgotten Dreams — 2010 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga — 2010
Into the Abyss — 2011 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
From One Second to the Next — 2013 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Queen of the Desert — 2015 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Salt and Fire — 2016 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World — 2016 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Into the Inferno — 2016 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger
Meeting Gorbachev — 2018
Family Romance, LLC — 2019 · shot by Werner Herzog
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin — 2019
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds — 2020
Bucking Fastard — 2026 · shot by Peter Zeitlinger

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