Werner Herzog — Playwright (34)
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Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986) 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) WikiData IMDb 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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Theater of Thought (2024) IMDb TMDB
Theater of Thought
director: 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) WikiData IMDb 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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Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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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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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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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
★ 8.4 (11 ratings) director: Werner Herzog actor: Klaus Kinski / Helena Rojo …
other title: Aguirre, furore di Dio / Aguirre, den gale erobrer …
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.