Werner Herzog filmography
Werner Herzog (born 1942)[1] is a German filmmaker. A figure of the New German Cinema, Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams,[2] people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.[3]
He collaborated with actor Klaus Kinski on five films, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Woyzeck (1979), and Fitzcarraldo (1982). His relationship with Kinski was the subject of Herzog's 1999 documentary My Best Fiend.'Fitzcarraldo garnered Herzog the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He directed the 2005 documentary Grizzly Man. In 2009, Herzog directed Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. In 2016, he directed two documentaries, Into the Inferno and Lo and Behold. For his 2018 documentary Meeting Gorbachev, Herzog had extensive interviews with the Soviet leader.
Directorial works
Fiction feature films
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
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1968 | Signs of Life | Yes | Yes | Yes | [4] | |
1970 | Even Dwarfs Started Small | Yes | Yes | [5] | ||
1972 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Yes | Yes | [6] | ||
1974 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Yes | Yes | [7] | ||
1976 | Heart of Glass | Yes | Yes | Yes | [8] | |
1977 | Stroszek | Yes | Yes | Yes | [9] | |
1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | Yes | Yes | Yes | [10][11] | |
1979 | Woyzeck | Yes | Yes | Yes | [12] | |
1982 | Fitzcarraldo | Yes | Yes | Yes | [13] | |
1984 | Where the Green Ants Dream | Yes | [14] | |||
1987 | Cobra Verde | Yes | Yes | [15] | ||
1991 | Scream of Stone | Yes | [16] | |||
2001 | Invincible | Yes | Yes | [17] | ||
2005 | The Wild Blue Yonder | Yes | Yes | [18] | ||
2006 | Rescue Dawn | Yes | Yes | [19] | ||
2009 | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Yes | [20] | |||
2009 | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Yes | Yes | [21] | ||
2015 | Queen of the Desert | Yes | Yes | [22] | ||
2016 | Salt and Fire | Yes | Yes | [23] | ||
2019 | Family Romance, LLC | Yes | Yes | [24] | ||
Fiction short films
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
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1962 | Herakles | Yes | Yes | |||
1964 | Game in the Sand | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
1966 | The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
1968 | Last Words | Yes | [25] | |||
1969 | Precautions Against Fanatics | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
1976 | No One Will Play with Me | Yes | Yes | |||
1988 | Les Gaulois | Yes | ||||
Documentary feature films
Documentary short films
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Narrator | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
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1977 | La Soufrière | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | [8] | |
1986 | Portrait Werner Herzog | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
1999 | Christ and Demons in New Spain | ||||||
2001 | Pilgrimage | ||||||
2002 | Ten Thousand Years Older | Yes | [39] | ||||
2009 | La Bohème | Yes | Yes | ||||
2011 | Ode to the Dawn of Man | Yes | [40] | ||||
2013 | From One Second to the Next | Yes | [40] | ||||
Television series
- On Death Row (2012–2013, 8 Episodes)
- Filmstunde (1991–1992, 4 Episodes)
Other work
Screenwriter
Films written, not directed, by Herzog:
- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
Herzog has written all his films, except these which he co-wrote:
- Heart of Glass (1976)
- Scream of Stone (1991)
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Herzog has also co-written:
- Hunger in the world explained to my son (El hambre en el mundo explicada a mi hijo) (2002)
- Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
Actor
- Geschichten vom Kübelkind (1971)
- Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
- Room 666 (1982)
- Burden of Dreams (1982)
- Man of Flowers (1983)
- Tokyo-Ga (1985)
- Bride of the Orient (1989)
- Hard to Be a God (1990)
- Tales from the Opera (1994)
- Burning Heart (1995)
- What Dreams May Come (1998)
- Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
- Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
- Mister Lonely (2007)
- The Grand (2007)
- Plastic Bag (2009)
- The Boondocks (season 3) ep. 31: "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" (air date 2 May 2010) – voice role
- The Simpsons ep. "The Scorpion's Tale" (2011), ep. "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" (2019), ep. "Screenless" (2020) – voice role
- Metalocalypse (season 4, recurring character) (2012) – voice role
- American Dad! Ep. "Ricky Spanish" (2012) – voice role
- Dinotasia (2012) – narrator
- Jack Reacher (2012)
- Home from Home (2013)
- The Wind Rises (English version) (2013) – voice role
- Penguins of Madagascar (2014) – voice role
- Parks and Recreation (2015)
- Rick and Morty (season 2) ep. 8: "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate" (2015) – voice role
- The Mandalorian (season 1) ep. 1, 3, and 7 (2019)
Producer
- A Gray State (2017)
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