Werner Herzog — Playwright (62)

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Lebenszeichen (1968)
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★ 8.0 22 ratings
沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 彼得·布罗格尔 / 沃尔夫冈·施通普夫 …
other title: 生命的标记 / 生命的讯息 …
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.

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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
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★ 7.8 5 ratings
沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 / 布鲁斯 查特文
other title: 流浪者:追随布鲁斯·查特文的脚步 / 游牧民族:跟随布鲁斯·查特文的脚步 …
When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life, uncovering stories of lost tribes, wanderers and dreamers.

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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
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★ 6.3 9 ratings
other title: 儿子,你都干了什么 / 아들아, 아들아 너는 무엇을 했느냐? …
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.

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Lessons of Darkness (1992)
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★ 8.3 25 ratings
other title: 어둠의 교훈 / Lektionen in Finsternis …
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2012)
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★ 8.4 45 ratings
other title: 快乐的人们 / 해피 피플 - 타이가에서 보낸 1년 …
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 in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.

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The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985)
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★ 8.0 7 ratings
沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 赖因霍尔德·梅斯纳 / Hans Kammerlander …
other title: 发光的山 / Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg …
Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
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★ 8.2 163 ratings
other title: 아귀레, 신의 분노 / Aguirre, a cólera de Deus …
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

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Family Romance, LLC. (2019)
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★ 6.9 94 ratings
沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 永井堇 / 石井裕一 …
other title: 家庭罗曼史有限公司 / 패밀리 로맨스 …
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

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Even Dwarfs Started Small (1971)
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★ 7.6 30 ratings
other title: 난쟁이도 작게 시작했다 / Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen …
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs

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Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Fitzcarraldo
★ 8.7 177 ratings
other title: 위대한 피츠카랄도 / フィツカラルド …
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

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Grizzly Man (2005)
Grizzly Man
★ 8.2 69 ratings
沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: Timothy Treadwell / Amie Huguenard …
other title: 그리즐리 맨 / グリズリーマン …
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
★ 7.4 18 ratings
other title: 잊혀진 꿈의 동굴 / 世界最古の洞窟壁画 忘れられた夢の記憶 …
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.