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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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As director
Ghost Elephants
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Theater of Thought
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Meeting Gorbachev
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Family Romance, LLC
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Into the Inferno
Salt and Fire
Queen of the Desert
From One Second to the Next
The Killers: Unstaged
Into the Abyss
Ode to the Dawn of Man
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
La Bohème
Encounters at the End of the World
Rescue Dawn
Grizzly Man
The Wild Blue Yonder
The White Diamond
Wheel of Time
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Ten Thousand Years Older
Invincible
Pilgrimage
As actor
Ghost Elephants
Sirena
Orion and the Dark
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
About a Hero
The Arc of Oblivion
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Last Exit: Space
Tegoyo
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
The Andinist
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Jihad in Hollywood
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Meeting Gorbachev
Tattoo Uprising
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Paradox Bullets
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias