Werner Herzog





Werner Herzog

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in Munich, Germany
September 05, 1942

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Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetić) is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.

He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and others. His films often feature heroes with impossible dreams or people with unique talents in obscure fields.


Average rating: 4.12 · 921 ratings · 166 reviews · 25 distinct works · Similar authors
Conquest of the Useless: Re...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
Of Walking in Ice: Munich-P...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 1988 — 12 editions
Fitzcarraldo
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions
Screenplays
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings2 editions
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009
Herzog on Herzog
4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 628 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
Incontri alla fine del mond...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009
Caminhando no Gelo
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005
Jäinen matka : jalan Münche...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1990
Le pays où rêvent les fourm...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings2 editions
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“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
Werner Herzog

“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”
Werner Herzog

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
Werner Herzog



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