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Werner Herzog
Munich, Allemagne
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…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bucking Fastard
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Soccer Meets America
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Hulk Hogan: Real American
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2026
Ghost Elephants
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Felicidad
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2025
Mi casa amarilla
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Sirena
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Reeling
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Theater of Thought
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2024
The End
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2024
About a Hero
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2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
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2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
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2024
Orion and the Dark
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2023
The Arc of Oblivion
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Notes from a Dromedary
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2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
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Tegoyo
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2022
Flores del precipicio
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2022
Last Exit: Space
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Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
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El Poso
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2021
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
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Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
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2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
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Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
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2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
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2020
The Andinist
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2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
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2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
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2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
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2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
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2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
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2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
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2019
The Mandalorian
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2019
Family Romance, LLC
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2019
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
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2019
Tattoo Uprising
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Meeting Gorbachev
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