Werner Herzog — Actor (150)

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I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later (2010)
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other title: Was ich bin sind meine Filme - Teil 2... nach 30 Jahren
Christian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on Werner Herzog "I am my films" (1976-78) covered Herzog's beginning as a filmmaker, the new film is a sequel titled "I am my films, part 2 - 30 years later" in which Weisenborn talks about Werner Herzog as a documentarian of the past 30 years.

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Film Lesson (1991)
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other title: Filmstunde / 电影课
A 4-part series of interviews and demonstrations by various artists, authors and performers put on in 1991 for the Viennale film festival (which Herzog directed). Herzog conducts the interviews himself.

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The Arc of Oblivion (2023)
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other title: 디 아크 오브 오빌리비언
"The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield - to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara - to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

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Ghosts of the Elephants (2025)
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other title: Ghost Elephants / 幽灵大象 …
Set in Angola’s mist-shrouded highlands, it follows three KhoiSan master trackers on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima—creatures presumed lost by technology but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory. The film is both a captivating environmental odyssey and a poetic meditation on culture, identity, and belonging.

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Capturing Reality (2008)
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other title: 捕捉现实 / Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary …
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?

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The Heirs of Daddy’s Cinema (1968)
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Wilhelm Roth actor: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 / Fred Hoffmann …
other title: “爸爸电影”的继承者们 / Die Erben von Papas Kino
Documentary which take as subject the Oberhausen Group and New German Cinema, and some of those who followed in their footsteps. It contains a glimpse of a very young Werner Herzog, here predicting the rise of home video long before the technology entered the mainstream. With Rob Houwer, Hans Rolf Strobel, Peter Schamoni, Norbert Kückelmann, Alexander Kluge, Marran Gosov, Werner Herzog, Edgar Reitz, Hans Toussaint, Hans Pflüger, Fred Hoffmann, Edgar Reitz - Produced by: WDS-Film for ORF

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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
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★ 8.5 8 ratings
other title: 沃纳·赫尔佐格:激进梦想家 / Werner Herzog, cinéaste de l'impossible …
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist.

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Reverse Angle: Rebellion of the Filmmakers (2008)
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other title: 电影人的反叛 / Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher …
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.