Werner Herzog — Playwright (42)
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Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986)
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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)
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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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Theater of Thought (2024)
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Werner Herzog actor: Rafael Yuste / Christof Koch …
Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape — the human brain — for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of fast-advancing neural technology.
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
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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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Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991)
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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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Cobra verde (1987)
Cobra Verde
Werner Herzog actor: Klaus Kinski / King Ampaw …
other title: Cobra Verde
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.
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Bucking Fastard (2026)
Bucking Fastard
Werner Herzog actor: Kate Mara / Rooney Mara …
Two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the world as they see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them – through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
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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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Signs of Life (1968)
Lebenszeichen
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
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
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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The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
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Werner Herzog actor: Peter H. Bumm / Georg Eska …
other title: Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz / La défense sans pareil de la forteresse Deutschkreutz
A satire on war and on the stupid things war inspires people to do. Four young men enter an abandoned fortress. Inside, they find military uniforms, which they immediately resolve to use to stage a bizarre war game. Their actions appear all the more senseless in relation to the peaceful everyday reality of the workers in the surrounding countryside.