Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 1 (Herakles; Last Words; The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreutz; Huie's Sermon; The Flying Doctors of East Africa; Wings of Hope; Precautions Against Fanatics) (1962-1999): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. Herakles (1962) Last Words (1967) The…
Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen) (1968): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Peter Brogle; An early descent into madness for dir. Werner Herzog, in which a soldier charged with guarding a remote island fortress must overcome the boredom of…
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer; A group of dwarfs run riot and take over their penal colony on a bleak volcanic island. Bizarre and unsettling parable will leave an indelible mark…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Short - Part 2 (Land of Silence and Darkness; Handicapped Future; Fata Morgana) (1970-1971): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. Land of Silence and Darkness…
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski; Stunningly shot on location in the Amazon, this spellbinding adventure details the decline and fall of a conquistador (Klaus Kinski) in his maniacal…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 5 (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner; The Dark Glow of the Mountains; No One Will Play With Me; Ballad of the Little Soldier) (1973-1984): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner…
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira; The title refers to the only case of a man who was 'born' as an adult. He has lived in a dark cellar all his life and has never seen another human…
Stroszek (1976): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Eva Mattes; Powerful tragi–comedy follows a simple–minded Bruno S to America with a prostitute trying to escape her unsavoury past. The film's…
Woyzeck (1976): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski; A version of Georg Buchner's play, matching Herzog to another gloomy Germanic visionary, with Klaus Kinski as the soldier tormented by visions and…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 3 (God's Angry Man; Echoes From a Sombre Evening; How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck) (1976-1990): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. God's Angry Man (1980) Echoes From a…
Heart of Glass (1976): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Clemens Scheitz; Werner Herzog committed his cast to six months of hypnosis, before embarking on a spellbinding tale of an 18th Century Bavarian glassblower whose…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 4 (La Soufriere; I Am My Films; Jag Mandir) (1977-1991): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. La Soufriere (1977) I Am My Films…
Nosferatu (1979): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani; Werner Herzog's remake is a surreal and truly sinister experience, embellished with a haunting soundtrack and a terrific Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu.
Fitzcarraldo (1982): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale; Colonialist visionary Klaus Kinski attempts to haul a huge riverboat over a hill in 19th century S. America with the help of Indian…
Burden of Dreams (1982): Dir. Les Blank
Feat. Werner Herzog; Les Blank's most famous film sticks with Werner Herzog through the thick and thin of the Amazon jungle during the notoriously troubled shooting of…
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett; Dir. Herzog’s usually compelling obsessions – myths, nature, primitive experience – come a cropper in this uneven depiction of a land rights…
Werner Herzog Documentaries and Shorts - Part 6 (Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun; Lessons of Darkness; Bells From the Deep; Portrait Werner Herzog) (1986-1993): Dir. Werner Herzog; The complete short documentaries and fictional works of the legendary German director, over six discs. Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun…
Cobra Verde (1988): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski; Klaus Kinski stars for the last time for Herzog as another doomed outcast in an alien environment. West Africa is portrayed as a cruel, highly…
Scream of Stone (Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein) (1991): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Mathilda May, Brad Dourif; Solid and steady climbing adventure set around an attempt on the incredibly difficult Patagonian peak of Cerro Torre. Despite some absolutely…
Lessons of Darkness / Fata Morgana (1992/1969): Dir. Werner Herzog; Two of dir. Herzog’s impressionistic documentaries on a double DVD. LESSONS OF DARKNESS investigates the aftermath of the Gulf War, with…
Gesualdo - Death for Five Voices (1995): Dir. Werner Herzog; A sharp, sometimes unflattering profile of 16th century composer Don Carol Gesualdo, with dir. Herzog dividing his time between the artist's sexual…
Transformation of the World Into Music (1996): Dir. Werner Herzog; Werner Herzog, indulging in a love of opera, turns his documentary eye on the Richard Wagner Festival, capturing the pulse of the annual event, and…
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997): Dir. Werner Herzog; Another quirky yet significant doco from Werner Herzog, whose remarkable subject here is expatriot German Dieter Dengler, who returns to the Vietnam…
My Best Fiend (Mein Liebster Feind) (1999): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog; Werner Herzog’s personal portrait of his friend and famous ‘alter ego’, the late Klaus Kinski, threads together just some of the bizarre…
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999): Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Ewen Bremner, Chloe Sevigny, Werner Herzog…; Experimental melodrama from notorious indie film–maker Harmony Korine (GUMMO) following a man with schizophrenia and his dysfunctional family.…
Invincible (2002): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Tim Roth, Udo Kier; An interesting treatment of the lives of the (secretly) Jewish strongman Zishe Breitbart and nightclub impressario Erik Jan Hanussen (Roth), who…
Wheel of Time (2003): Dir. Werner Herzog; Completing Werner Herzog's recent documentary trinity (together with THE WHITE DIAMOND and GRIZZLY MAN), the German iconoclast lucidly absorbs the…
Incident At Loch Ness (2004): Dir. Zak Penn
Feat. Werner Herzog; Droll and rather odd filmbiz comedy follows the efforts of German auteur Werner Herzog (GRIZZLY MAN) and an inept Hollywood producer, Zak Penn, to…
White Diamond, The (2004): Dir. Werner Herzog; Werner Herzog finds another slightly insane alter–ego for himself in Dr Graham Dorrington, here documenting the engineer's wild ambition to…
Grizzly Man (2005): Dir. Werner Herzog; One of dir. Herzog's (AGUIRRE) true classics, this is a devastating glimpse into the life of a self–styled naturalist, whose obsession with…

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