Werner Herzog

Director

Born: September 5, 1942 (age 83)
From: Munich, Allemagne

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as…

Filmography (197)

Ghost Elephants (2026)
Director
Sirena (2025)
Theater of Thought (2024)
Director
About a Hero (2024)
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2024)
Director
Celebrating the Rice Media Center (2024)
Self (archival footage)
Orion and the Dark (2024)
Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion (2023)
Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
Self
Tegoyo (2022)
Self (Voice)
Last Exit: Space (2022)
Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire (2022)
Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus (2021)
Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life (2021)
Self (archive footage)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner (2021)
Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless (2021)
Self
The Andinist (2020)
The Painter (Narrator)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) (2020)
Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
Director
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. (2020)
(archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault (2020)
(archive footage)
Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Director
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre (2019)
Self
Tattoo Uprising (2019)
Self
Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
Director
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
Director
Jihad in Hollywood (2019)
Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls (2018)
Self
Paradox Bullets (2018)
Narrator (voice)