Werner Herzog filmography

Werner Herzog (born 1942)[1] is a German filmmaker. A figure of the New German Cinema, Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams,[2] people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.[3]

Herzog at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival

He collaborated with actor Klaus Kinski on five films, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Woyzeck (1979), and Fitzcarraldo (1982). His relationship with Kinski was the subject of Herzog's 1999 documentary My Best Fiend.'Fitzcarraldo garnered Herzog the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He directed the 2005 documentary Grizzly Man. In 2009, Herzog directed Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. In 2016, he directed two documentaries, Into the Inferno and Lo and Behold. For his 2018 documentary Meeting Gorbachev, Herzog had extensive interviews with the Soviet leader.

Directorial works
Herzog collaborated with Klaus Kinski (pictured) on five films.
Herzog at the 66th Venice International Film Festival

Fiction feature films
Table featuring films by Werner Herzog
Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes Ref.
1968 Signs of Life Yes Yes Yes [4]
1970 Even Dwarfs Started Small Yes Yes [5]
1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God Yes Yes [6]
1974 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Yes Yes [7]
1976 Heart of Glass Yes Yes Yes [8]
1977 Stroszek Yes Yes Yes [9]
1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre Yes Yes Yes [10][11]
1979 Woyzeck Yes Yes Yes [12]
1982 Fitzcarraldo Yes Yes Yes [13]
1984 Where the Green Ants Dream Yes [14]
1987 Cobra Verde Yes Yes [15]
1991 Scream of Stone Yes [16]
2001 Invincible Yes Yes [17]
2005 The Wild Blue Yonder Yes Yes [18]
2006 Rescue Dawn Yes Yes [19]
2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Yes [20]
2009 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Yes Yes [21]
2015 Queen of the Desert Yes Yes [22]
2016 Salt and Fire Yes Yes [23]
2019 Family Romance, LLC Yes Yes [24]

Fiction short films
Table featuring short films by Werner Herzog
Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes Ref.
1962 Herakles Yes Yes
1964 Game in the Sand Yes Yes Yes
1966 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz Yes Yes Yes
1968 Last Words Yes [25]
1969 Precautions Against Fanatics Yes Yes Yes
1976 No One Will Play with Me Yes Yes
1988 Les Gaulois Yes

Documentary feature films
Table featuring documentary feature films by Werner Herzog
Year Title Director Writer Narrator Producer Notes Ref.
1969 The Flying Doctors of East Africa Yes Yes
1971 Handicapped Future Yes Yes
1971 Land of Silence and Darkness Yes Yes Yes
1971 Fata Morgana Yes Yes Yes
1974 The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner Yes Yes Yes Yes
1976 How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck Yes Yes Yes Yes
1981 Huie's Sermon Yes Yes
1981 God's Angry Man Yes Yes Yes Yes
1984 Ballad of the Little Soldier Yes Yes Yes Yes
1985 The Dark Glow of the Mountains Yes Yes Yes Yes
1989 Herdsmen of the Sun Yes Yes
1990 Echoes from a Sombre Empire Yes Yes Yes Yes
1991 Jag Mandir Yes Yes Yes Yes
1992 Lessons of Darkness Yes Yes Yes Yes
1993 Bells from the Deep Yes Yes Yes
1994 The Transformation of the World into Music Yes [26]
1995 Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices Yes Yes Yes
1997 Little Dieter Needs to Fly Yes Yes Yes
1998 Wings of Hope Yes Yes
1999 My Best Fiend Yes Yes Yes
2003 Wheel of Time Yes Yes Yes
2004 The White Diamond Yes Yes [27]
2005 Grizzly Man Yes Yes Yes [28][29]
2007 Encounters at the End of the World Yes Yes Yes [30]
2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Yes Yes Yes [31]
2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga Yes Yes Yes Yes
2011 Into the Abyss Yes Yes Yes [32]
2016 Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World Yes Yes Yes [33][34]
2016 Into the Inferno Yes Yes [35]
2018 Meeting Gorbachev Yes Yes Co-directed with André Singer [36]
2019 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin Yes Yes Yes [37]
2020 Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds Yes Yes Yes [38]

Documentary short films
Table featuring documentary short films by Werner Herzog
Year Title Director Writer Narrator Producer Notes Ref.
1977 La Soufrière Yes Yes Yes Yes [8]
1986 Portrait Werner Herzog Yes Yes Yes
1999 Christ and Demons in New Spain
2001 Pilgrimage
2002 Ten Thousand Years Older Yes [39]
2009 La Bohème Yes Yes
2011 Ode to the Dawn of Man Yes [40]
2013 From One Second to the Next Yes [40]

Television series
  • On Death Row (2012–2013, 8 Episodes)
  • Filmstunde (1991–1992, 4 Episodes)

Other work

Screenwriter

Films written, not directed, by Herzog:

Herzog has written all his films, except these which he co-wrote:

Herzog has also co-written:

Actor

Producer

References
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