Direction: Werner Herzog

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Fini Straubinger

Plot Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Klaus Kinski · Claudia Cardinale · Paul Hittscher · Miguel Ángel Fuentes

Plot The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

Direction Dmitry Vasyukov · Werner Herzog

Plot In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Werner Herzog

Plot This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames. In contrast to the common documentary film there are no comments and few interviews. What must have been...

Direction Werner Herzog

Plot Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film.

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Katia Krafft · Maurice Krafft

Plot Drawing from the personal film archive of two passionate volcanologists, Werner Herzog explores humanity’s fascination with one of our planet’s most elemental forces.

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Dieter Dengler

Plot In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Bruno S. · Eva Mattes · Clemens Scheitz · Burkhard Driest

Plot Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Klaus Kinski · Claudia Cardinale · Werner Herzog · Eva Mattes

Plot The fruitful but often bizarre collaboration between actor Klaus Kinski and filmmaker Werner Herzog is chronicled in this incisive documentary directed by Herzog. The actor-director tandem led to such works...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Werner Herzog

Plot La Soufrière is, as Herzog explains, a documentary of an unavoidable catastrophe that didn’t happen. When Herzog learned in 1977 that the volcano, La Soufrière, on the small Caribbean island...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Bruno S. · Walter Ladengast · Brigitte Mira · Willy Semmelrogge

Plot Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Walter Steiner · Werner Herzog

Plot A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Klaus Kinski · Helena Rojo · Del Negro · Ruy Guerra

Plot Herzog always said that right from their first encounter, he knew he would end up taking advantage of Kinski's turbulent personality. He was chosen to play choleric Aguirre, a character...

Direction Werner Herzog

Plot 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.

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Reinhold Messner · Werner Herzog

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Timothy Treadwell

Plot Timothy Treadwell's death was as sensational as his life: Having presumed he could live safely among the grizzly bears of the Alaskan wilderness, the outdoorsman and author (Among Grizzlies)--along with...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Michael Goldsmith · Werner Herzog · Augustine Assemat · David Dacko

Plot Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

Direction Werner Herzog

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Klaus Kinski · Isabelle Adjani · Bruno Ganz · Jacques Dufilho

Plot Coproducción Alemania del Oeste-Francia; Werner Herzog Filmproduktion / Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) / Gaumont

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Werner Herzog

Plot Intimate interviews and life stories of several people involved in the life of an inmate condemned to death in a Texas prison. We do not know when and how we...