🎬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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2024)	Director / Writer		8
2	Orion and the Dark (2024)	Narrator (voice)		7
3	Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)	Director / Writer		6
4	Family Romance, LLC (2019)	Director / Writer	-	-
5	Meeting Gorbachev (2019)	Director / Writer	-	-
6	Salt and Fire (2016)	Director / Writer		5
7	Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)	Director / Writer		7
8	Into the Inferno (2016)	Director / Writer		6.8
9	Freaks of Nature (2015)	Perfect Being (voice)		6
10	Queen of the Desert (2015)	Director / Writer		4.2
11	Atari: Game Over (2014)	Self (archival)		7.4
12	Penguins of Madagascar (2014)	Documentary Filmmaker (voice)		6.9
13	Life Itself (2014)	Self - Filmmaker		8.1
14	Mistaken for Strangers (2013)	Self (uncredited)	-	-
15	The Unbelievers (2013)	Self	-	-
16	Dinotasia (2012)	Narrator (voice)		6
17	Jack Reacher (2012)	Zec Chelovek		7
18	Ode to the Dawn of Man (2011)	Director / Writer	-	-
19	Into the Abyss (2011)	Director / Writer		7.7
20	Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)	Director / Writer		8
21	Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)	Director / Writer		6.8
22	My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)	Director / Writer		5
23	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)	Director / Writer		6.3
24	Plastic Bag (2009)	Plastic Bag (voice)		7
25	Capturing Reality (2008)	Self	-	-
26	Mister Lonely (2008)	Father Umbrillo		7.5
27	Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Oscars 2009	Director / Writer		5
28	The Grand (2007)	The German		6.7
29	Rescue Dawn (2007)	Director / Writer		6.9
30	The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)	Director / Writer		9
31	Grizzly Man (2005)	Director / Writer		7.2
32	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)	Self		6.5
33	Wheel of Time (2003)	Director / Writer		7
34	Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)	Director / Writer		6
35	Invincible (2001)	Director / Writer		5
36	Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)	Father		9.5
37	My Best Fiend (1999)	Director / Writer		7.7
38	What Dreams May Come (1998) Oscars 1999	Face		7.4
39	Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)	Director / Writer		8.3
40	Lessons of Darkness (1992)	Director / Writer		8
41	Hard to Be a God (1990)	Mita / Richard	-	-
42	Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1988)	Director / Writer		8
43	Cobra Verde (1987)	Director / Writer		8
44	Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986)	Director / Writer	-	-
45	Tokyo-Ga (1985)	Self		8
46	Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)	Director / Writer		5
47	Huie's Sermon (1983)	Director / Writer		6
48	God's Angry Man (1983)	Director / Writer		7
49	Man of Flowers (1983)	The Father		5
50	Burden of Dreams (1982)	Self - Filmmaker		7.7
51	Fitzcarraldo (1982)	Director / Writer		7.3
52	Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)	Self - Film Director: Nosferatu		6
53	Woyzeck (1979)	Director / Writer		4.3
54	Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)	Director / Writer		7.3
55	The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979)	Self		6
56	La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977)	Director / Writer		7
57	Stroszek (1977)	Director / Writer		5.7
58	How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)	Director / Writer		6
59	Heart of Glass (1976)	Director / Writer		6
60	Tales of the Dumpster Kid (1974)	Hurenmörder		7
61	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)	Director / Writer		7
62	The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)	Director / Writer		6.3
63	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)	Director / Writer		6.9
64	Fata Morgana (1972)	Director / Writer		6.3
65	Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)	Director / Writer		9
66	Handicapped Future (1971)	Director / Writer		8
67	Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)	Director / Writer		5
68	Signs of Life (1968)	Director / Writer		7
69	Last Words (1968)	Director / Writer		5.3
70	The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)	Director / Writer		6