Werner Herzog

Also Credited As:

Werner Stipetic
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Biography

A study in both controversy and contradictions, filmmaker Werner Herzog, more than any of his peers, embodied German history, character and cultural richness in his work, while at the same time challenging previous conventions. Yet unlike his contemporaries Fassbinder, Wenders and Schlondorff, Herzog never set a significant film in his own country in his own time. Instead, his restless nature took him far and wide across the world, while his …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Camera, Film & Tape, Music, Sound

Born

Werner Stipetic on September 5, 1942 in Germany

LATEST CREDITS

The Grand

The German

Encounters at the End of the World

Narrator

Walking to Werner

Narrator

Incident at Loch Ness

Actor

Burden of Dreams

Himself

Futurestates

Actor

Herzog in Wonderland

Himself

Hard to Be a God

Mita

Was Ich Bin, Sind Meine Filme

Himself

Lessons of Darkness

Narration

Tokyo-Ga

Himself

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Himself

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life

Himself

Dinotasia

Narrator

Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten

Narration

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Narration

Mister Lonely

Father Umbrillo

julien donkey-boy

Father

Chambre 666

Himself

Gekauftes Gluck

Actor

Jack Reacher

The Zec

The Night of the Film-Makers

Himself

The White Diamond

Narrator

My Best Fiend

Narrator

Man of Flowers

Father