Werner Herzog — Playwright (25)
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData Melon Log
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
8.2 (6 ratings) director: Werner Herzog actor: Bruno S. / Walter Ladengast …
other title: L'enigma di Kaspar Hauser / Gåden om Kaspar Hauser …
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
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Encounters at the End of the World (2007) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Encounters at the End of the World
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Clive Oppenheimer …
other title: Begegnungen am Ende der Welt / Rencontres au bout du monde …
Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins", but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
director: Wim Wenders / Jim Jarmusch … actor: Markku Peltola / Kati Outinen …
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.
2002 十分钟年华老去 文艺 欧洲电影 电影
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Dominique Baffier …
other title: Cave Of Forgotten Dreams / A Caverna dos Sonhos Esquecidos …
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
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Grizzly Man (2005) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Grizzly Man
director: Werner Herzog actor: Warren Queeney / Willy Fulton …
other title: Grizzly man
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.
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Wings of Hope (2000) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel
director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: Werner Herzog / Juliane Koepcke …
other title: Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel / Les Ailes de l'espoir …
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.
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Measures Against Fanatics (1969) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker
director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: Petar Radenkovic / Hans Tiedemann …
other title: Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker / 留心对抗梦幻 …
The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
director: Werner Herzog actor: Werner Herzog / Dieter Dengler …
other title: Flucht aus Laos / Petit Dieter doit voler
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
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Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit
director: Werner Herzog actor: Fini Straubinger / Heinrich Fleischmann …
other title: Il paese del silenzio e dell'oscurità / Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit …
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
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Lessons of Darkness (1992) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
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.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
8.1 (7 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.
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La Ballade de Bruno (1977) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Stroszek
director: Werner Herzog actor: Bruno S. / Eva Mattes …
other title: La ballata di Stroszek / A Canção de Bruno S. …
À sa sortie de prison, Bruno S. décide de s'amender. Son ami Scheitz l'aide à reconstruire sa vie. Les deux hommes rencontrent Eva, une jeune prostituée qui cherchent à fuir sa condition. Bruno, Scheitz et Eva s'exilent alors aux États-Unis. Des difficultés financières ne tardent pas à assombrir le bonheur qu'ils croyaient enfin possible.
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Into the Inferno (2016) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
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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Heart of Glass (1976) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
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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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht
7.2 (8 ratings) director: Werner Herzog actor: Klaus Kinski / Isabelle Adjani …
other title: Nosferatu - Il principe della notte / Nosferatu - vampyren …
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.