Werner Herzog — Playwright (33)
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) [Movie]
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.
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) [Movie]
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.
Measures Against Fanatics (1969) [Movie]
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.
Wings of Hope (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
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.
Grizzly Man (2005) [Movie]
Grizzly Man
8.3 (10 ratings) 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.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
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.
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
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.
Encounters at the End of the World (2007) [Movie]
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.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) [Movie]
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
8.1 (7 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.