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Werner Herzog

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Filmography

Jack Reacher

2012
as Zec Chelovek

Orion and the Dark

2024
as Narrator

Penguins of Madagascar

2014
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)

What Dreams May Come

1998
as Face

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974
as Himself

O Homem que Matou John Wayne

2017
as Werner Herzog

Mister Lonely

2008
as Father Umbrillo

Neue Welten - Hinter dem europäischen Horizont

1999
as Narrator

Gekauftes Glück

1989
as Gemeindeschreiber Businger

La Soufrière

1977
as Narrator

Plastic Bag

2009

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

2013
as Alexander von Humboldt

Location Africa

1987
as Himself

Dreams and Burdens

2005
as Himself

NDF-Report

1967
as Werner Herzog

Wings of Hope

2000
as Himself

Dinotasia

2012
as Narrator

Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien

2018
as Werner Herzog

Meeting with Werner Herzog

2004
as Werner Herzog

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

1985
as himself

Grizzly Man

2005
as Himself

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976
as Himself

Incident at Loch Ness

2004
as Himself

Brennendes Herz

1996

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

2008
as Werner Herzog

Capturing Reality

2008
as Self

God's Angry Man

1981
as Narrator

Burden of Dreams

1982
as Himself

Dribble

2004
as Werner Herzog

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

2011
as Himself

Manaslu - Berg der Seelen

2018
as Himself

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

1979
as Himself

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

1995
as Narrator (voice)

A Brief History of Errol Morris

1999
as Himself

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010
as Himself

Stardust Stricken - Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait

1996
as Werner Herzog

Der Boxprinz

2002
as Werner Herzog

Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher

2008
as Werner Herzog

Jihad in Hollywood

2016
as Werner Herzog

The Great Buster: A Celebration

2018
as Himself

Back to Room 666

2008
as Werner Herzog

Lessons of Darkness

1995
as Narrator (voice)

Lemonade War

2014

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

2016
as Himself

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010
as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Killing Klaus Kinski

2016
as Werner Herzog

The U.S. and the Holocaust

2022
as Voice-over

Last Exit: Space

2022
as Narrator

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

2005
as Werner Herzog

Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere

1996
as Werner Herzog

Hard to Be a God

1989
as Mita / Richard

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

2018
as Werner Herzog

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984
as Himself (Voice)

Lost in the Garden of the World

1975
as Werner Herzog

Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020
as Werner Herzog

Into the Inferno

2016
as Himself, Narrator

Behinderte Zukunft

1971
as Interviewer

Hans Zimmer - Der Sound für Hollywood

2011
as Werner Herzog

All In This Tea

2007
as Werner Herzog

Der Ball ist ein Sauhund

2000
as Werner Herzog

Salt and Fire

2016
as Man with one story

The Grand

2007
as The German

MasterClass

2014

The Making of Nosferatu

1979
as Werner Herzog

Die Erben von Papas Kino

1968
as Werner Herzog

Life Itself

2014

Tokyo-Ga

1985
as Himself

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997
as Himself / Narrator

Portrait Werner Herzog

1986
as Himself

The Unbelievers

2013
as Himself

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

1967

Schneeweißrosenrot

1991
as Werner Herzog

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

1980

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2020
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator

Room 666

1982

Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

2007
as Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

1980
as Himself

Scream of Stone

1991
as TV-Regisseur

Freaks of Nature

2015
as Perfect Being (voice)

Encounters at the End of the World

2007
as Narrator (voice)

Tattoo Uprising

2019
as Werner Herzog

Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

2020
as Narrator

Jag Mandir

1991
as Narrator

Geschichten vom Kübelkind

1971
as Hurenmörder

Man of Flowers

1983
as The Father

Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

2020
as Narrator

The White Diamond

2004
as Himself / narrator

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971

My Best Fiend

1999
as Himself

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

1989
as Narrator (voice)

Julien Donkey-Boy

1999
as Father

Director

Movie The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974
Movie The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 2022
Movie Neue Welten - Hinter dem europäischen Horizont 1999
Movie La Bohème 2009
Movie La Soufrière 1977
Movie The Flying Doctors of East Africa 1970
Movie Bells from the Deep 1993
Movie The French as Seen by… 1988
Movie Wings of Hope 2000
Movie The Dark Glow of the Mountain 1985
Movie Grizzly Man 2005
Movie How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck 1976
Movie God's Angry Man 1981
Movie Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life 2011
Movie Wheel of Time 2003
Movie Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Movie Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices 1995
Movie Signs of Life 1968
Movie Cobra Verde 1987
Movie Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
Episode Storyville
Screamers 		2007
Movie Even Dwarfs Started Small 1970
Movie The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans 2009
Movie Queen of the Desert 2015
Movie Lessons of Darkness 1995
Movie Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 2016
Movie Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010
Movie Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 2020
Movie Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002
Movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
Movie Vernon God Little
Movie Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
Movie Meeting Gorbachev 2018
Movie Ballad of the Little Soldier 1984
Movie Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere 1996
Movie Where the Green Ants Dream 1984
Movie Bucking Fastard
Movie Fata Morgana 1971
Movie From One Second to the Next 2013
Movie Into the Inferno 2016
Movie Behinderte Zukunft 1971
Movie Les Gaulois 1988
Movie The Killers: Unstaged 2012
Episode BBC Documentaries
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 		2019
Movie Salt and Fire 2016
Movie Last Words 1968
Movie Huie's Sermon 1983
Episode 2000 Jahre Christentum
Neue Welten 		2000
Movie Woyzeck 1979
Movie Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds 2020
Movie The Making of Nosferatu 1979
Movie Stroszek 1977
Movie Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997
Movie The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz 1967
Movie Invincible 2001
Movie Portrait Werner Herzog 1986
Movie The Wild Blue Yonder 2005
Movie ファミリーロマンス社 2020
Movie My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 2009
Movie Echoes From a Sombre Empire 1990
Movie Fitzcarraldo 1982
Movie Scream of Stone 1991
Movie Encounters at the End of the World 2007
Movie Ode to the Dawn of Man 2011
Movie Jag Mandir 1991
Movie Heart of Glass 1976
Movie The White Diamond 2004
Movie Land of Silence and Darkness 1971
Movie Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun 1989
Movie Precautions Against Fanatics 1969
Movie No One Will Play with Me 1976
Movie My Best Fiend 1999
Movie Rescue Dawn 2006

Writer

Movie The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974
Movie Neue Welten - Hinter dem europäischen Horizont 1999
Movie The Flying Doctors of East Africa 1970
Movie Bells from the Deep 1993
Movie Grizzly Man 2005
Movie Incident at Loch Ness 2004
Movie God's Angry Man 1981
Movie Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life 2011
Movie Wheel of Time 2003
Movie Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices 1995
Movie Signs of Life 1968
Movie Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Movie Cobra Verde 1987
Movie Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
Movie Even Dwarfs Started Small 1970
Movie Queen of the Desert 2015
Movie Lessons of Darkness 1995
Movie Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010
Movie Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 2020
Movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
Movie Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002
Movie Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
Movie Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere 1996
Movie Ballad of the Little Soldier 1984
Movie Where the Green Ants Dream 1984
Movie Fata Morgana 1971
Movie Into the Inferno 2016
Movie Behinderte Zukunft 1971
Episode BBC Documentaries
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 		2019
Movie Salt and Fire 2016
Movie Last Words 1968
Episode 2000 Jahre Christentum
Neue Welten 		2000
Movie Woyzeck 1979
Movie Stroszek 1977
Movie Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997
Movie The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz 1967
Movie Invincible 2001
Movie Portrait Werner Herzog 1986
Movie The Wild Blue Yonder 2005
Movie My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 2009
Movie Echoes From a Sombre Empire 1990
Movie Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe 1980
Movie ファミリーロマンス社 2020
Movie Fitzcarraldo 1982
Movie Encounters at the End of the World 2007
Movie Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds 2020
Movie Jag Mandir 1991
Movie Heart of Glass 1976
Movie The White Diamond 2004
Movie Land of Silence and Darkness 1971
Movie Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun 1989
Movie Precautions Against Fanatics 1969
Movie No One Will Play with Me 1976
Movie My Best Fiend 1999
Movie Rescue Dawn 2006

Host

Movie Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer 2022

Producer

Movie La Soufrière 1977
Movie Location Africa 1987
Movie How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck 1976
Movie Wheel of Time 2003
Movie Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Movie Signs of Life 1968
Movie Even Dwarfs Started Small 1970
Movie The Act of Killing 2012
Movie Lessons of Darkness 1995
Movie Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 2016
Movie The Look of Silence 2014
Movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
Movie Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
Movie A Gray State 2017
Movie Ballad of the Little Soldier 1984
Movie Behinderte Zukunft 1971
Movie Salt and Fire 2016
Movie Last Words 1968
Movie Echoes From a Sombre Empire 1990
Movie Fitzcarraldo 1982
Movie Jag Mandir 1991
Movie Heart of Glass 1976
Movie Land of Silence and Darkness 1971
Movie Precautions Against Fanatics 1969

Guest Star

Episode Parks and Recreation
2017 		2015
Episode The Simpsons
Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion 		2019
Episode Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Practical 		2020
Episode The Mandalorian
Chapter 7: The Reckoning 		2019
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Werner Herzog, Roger Waters 		2022
Episode Rick and Morty
Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate 		2015
Episode Die Harald Schmidt Show
Werner Herzog 		2011
Episode Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
Werner Herzog Returns 		2025
Episode Late Night With Seth Meyers: Corrections
Episode 51: Specjackular | A Celebration of CORRECTIONS! 		2022
Episode The Simpsons
The Scorpion's Tale 		2011
Episode The Boondocks
It's a Black President, Huey Freeman 		2010
Episode The Mandalorian
Chapter 3: The Sin 		2019
Episode The Mandalorian
Chapter 1: The Mandalorian 		2019
Episode Conversa com Bial
Werner Herzog 		2022
Episode The Henry Rollins Show
Werner Herzog & Frank Black 		2006
Episode The Colbert Report
Werner Herzog 		2011