Werner Herzog — Actor (50)
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Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Werner Herzog: Filmemacher
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Reinhold Messner …
other title: Werner Herzog: Filmemacher / Retrato de Herzog …
An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.
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Ghost Elephants (2026) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ghost Elephants
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Steve Boyes …
other title: Elefantes Fantasma / Ghost Elephants - Die Geister im Hochland Angolas …
In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory.
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All In This Tea (2007) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
All In This Tea
director: Gina Leibrecht / Les Blank actor: David Lee Hoffman / Song Diefeng …
During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer's collectives selling tea, ways to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's best friend, the earthworm.
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Bruce Chatwin …
other title: Nomad - In cammino con Bruce Chatwin / Der Nomade - Auf den Spuren von Bruce Chatwin …
When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life, uncovering stories of lost tribes, wanderers and dreamers.
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Incident at Loch Ness (2004) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Incident at Loch Ness
director: Zak Penn actor: Werner Herzog / Zak Penn …
other title: Zwischenfall am Loch Ness / Incident au Loch Ness
When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, they uncover much more than they bargained for. Unexplained sightings of the creature and chaos among the crew create an uneasy feeling that things aren't what they seem.
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BLAST! (2008) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
BLAST!
director: Paul Devlin actor: Werner Herzog / Mark Devlin …
With extraordinary access, BLAST exposes a world of risky, hardcore, scientific adventure. The story follows an international team of astrophysicists trying to launch a multi-million dollar telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their journey to discover thousands of early galaxies takes them from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Revealing frustrations, inevitable failures and ultimate triumph, BLAST puts a human face on the quest to answer our most basic question - How did we get here?
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The Dark Glow of the Mountain (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Reinhold Messner …
other title: Gasherbrum - La montagna lucente / Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg …
Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.
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The Ball Is a Scumbag (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Der Ball ist ein Sauhund
director: Christian Weisenborn / Rudolph Herzog actor: Rudi Gutendorf / Werner Herzog
other title: Der Ball ist ein Sauhund
"Sometimes the ball is bewitched," says legendary soccer coach Rudi Gutendorf. He's the one who would know, after having coached 6 first division soccer teams in Germany alone and countless others in 38 countries around the world.
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Tales of the Dumpster Kid (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Geschichten vom Kübelkind
director: Ula Stöckl / Edgar Reitz actor: Kristine De Loup / Bruno Bendel …
other title: Geschichten vom Kübelkind
The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre. Her stories are set in a whole range of different time periods. What is a Dumpster Kid?
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Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen
director: Werner Herzog actor: Wandjuk Marika / Roy Marika …
other title: Dove sognano le formiche verdi / Onde Sonham as Formigas Verdes …
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
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Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / André Heller
other title: Jag Mandir. L'eccentrico teatro privato del Marajiah di Udaipur / Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur …
Jag Mandir is a quiet and often overlooked film in the vast oeuvre of Werner Herzog. Apparently, 20 hours of footage was shot that covered the whole fest and the film hardly presents us a twentieth of that. A native walking into the film in between may well fail to immediately realize that it is his country that is being shown and these are figures from the mythology of various sections of his nation. The bulk of the film consists of footage of an elaborate theatrical performance for the Maharana Arvind Singh Mewar at the City Palace of Udaipur, Rajasthan staged by André Heller.
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Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)'
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Nathalie Baye / Jacques Dutronc …
other title: Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)' / Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut
Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Miou-Miou, who were previously cast to play in "Sauve qui peut (la vie)," Godard speaks about great image makers: Dreyer and Wim Wenders, the painters Edward Hopper and Pierre Bonnard.
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Steve Liptay …
other title: How much wood would a Woodchuck Chuck / How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache …
A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.
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Bells from the Deep (1993) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Glocken aus der Tiefe
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Vissarion …
other title: Rintocchi dal profondo / Glocken aus der Tiefe …
A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the city of Kitesh. According to the legend, God saved the city from the Mongolian prince Batyi's soldiers by letting it sink to the bottom of the lake. If you listen carefully you can hear the bells of the Kitesh cathedral toll deep down.
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The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022) [TV] IMDb TMDB
The U.S. and the Holocaust
director: Ken Burns / Sarah Botstein … actor: Peter Coyote / Daniel Mendelsohn …
other title: Die USA und der Holocaust / L'Amérique face à l'Holocauste
Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.