Werner Herzog — Actor (53)
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Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) IMDb TMDB
Echos aus einem düsteren Reich
director: Werner Herzog actor: Michael Goldsmith / Werner Herzog …
other title: Bokassa - Echi da un regno oscuro / Echos aus einem düsteren Reich …
Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
director: Clive Oppenheimer / Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Clive Oppenheimer …
other title: Fireball: messaggeri dalle stelle / Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds …
This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.
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The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) IMDb TMDB
The Great Buster: A Celebration
director: Peter Bogdanovich actor: Peter Bogdanovich / Buster Keaton …
other title: The Great Buster / Den store Buster Keaton …
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.
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Hard to Be a God (1990) IMDb TMDB
Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein
director: Peter Fleischmann actor: Edward Żentara / Aleksandr Filippenko …
other title: È difficile essere un dio / Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein …
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
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What Dreams May Come (1998)
What Dreams May Come
director: Vincent Ward actor: Robin Williams / Cuba Gooding Jr. …
other title: Al di là dei sogni / Para Além do Horizonte …
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
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La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977) IMDb TMDB
La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Edward Lachman …
other title: La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe / La Soufrière
Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) TMDB Douban
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
director: Werner Herzog / Dmitry Vasyukov actor: Werner Herzog / Gennady Soloviev …
other title: Happy People: Ein Jahr in der Taiga / Happy People : un an dans la Taïga …
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.
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My Best Fiend (1999)
Mein liebster Feind
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Klaus Kinski …
other title: Kinski, il mio nemico più caro / Min bedste uven …
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
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God's Angry Man (1981) IMDb TMDB
Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Gene Scott
other title: Fede e denaro / Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger …
The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970s and '80s, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show.
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Signs of Life (1968)
Lebenszeichen
director: Werner Herzog actor: Peter Brogle / Wolfgang Reichmann …
other title: Segni di vita / Lebenszeichen …
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
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Heart of Glass (1976)
Herz aus Glas
director: Werner Herzog actor: Josef Bierbichler / Stefan Güttler …
other title: Cuore di vetro / Coração de Gelo …
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
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Into the Abyss (2011)
Into the Abyss
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Jason Burkett …
other title: Ned i afgrunden / Tod in Texas …
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.
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Into the Inferno (2016) IMDb TMDB Douban Skybridge
Into the Inferno
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Clive Oppenheimer …
other title: Dentro l'inferno / Visita ao Inferno …
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
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Burden of Dreams (1982)
Burden of Dreams
director: Les Blank actor: Candace Laughlin / Werner Herzog …
other title: Una nave carica di sogni / Die Last der Träume …
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
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Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
director: Les Blank actor: Alice Waters / Werner Herzog …
other title: 大蒜胜十妈 / Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers …
A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
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Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Lektionen in Finsternis
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog
other title: Apocalisse nel deserto / Lektionen in Finsternis …
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.