Werner Herzog

  • Werner Herzog – Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker AKA Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

    1961-1970ComedyGermanyShort FilmWerner Herzog

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    A humorous short about paranoid people at a Munich racetrack trying to prevent “fanatics” from assaulting the horses.Read More »

  • Werner Herzog – Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen AKA Where the Green Ants Dream [+Commentary] (1984)

    Werner Herzog1981-1990ArthouseDramaGermany

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    The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various “solutions” such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible revenue. Invited on a trip to a city some of the aborigines sees a military aeroplane and express the wish to own it. The company buys it and gives it to the aborigines as a sign of good will. A runway is made in the desert and the plane is flown to the location. All negotiations concerning the area fail and the dispute goes to a court of the Commonwealth. Parties and experts are heard, obstacles are met such as an aborigine who is the sole survivor of his tribe (and language) and therefore no-one understands what he is saying.Read More »

  • Werner Herzog – Stroszek [+commentary] (1977)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyWerner Herzog

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    In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

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    Who else but Werner Herzog would make a film about a retarded ex-prisoner, a little old man and a prostitute, who leave Germany to begin a new life in a house trailer in Wisconsin? Who else would shoot the film in the hometown of Ed Gein, the murderer who inspired “Psycho” (1960)? Who else would cast all the local roles with locals? Who else would end the movie with a policeman radioing, “We’ve got a truck on fire, can’t find the switch to turn the ski lift off, and can’t stop the dancing chicken. Send an electrician.”Read More »

  • Werner Herzog – My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaUSAWerner Herzog

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    Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.Read More »

  • Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer – Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)

    2011-2020Clive OppenheimerDocumentaryUSAWerner Herzog

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    If you don’t think that much about meteors, you have a whole universe to discover in Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds. Werner Herzog reunites with University of Cambridge professor Clive Oppenheimer, with whom he explored volcanoes for Into the Inferno. They travel the world hunting for meteors, revealing connections between science, history, and mythology. On camera, Oppenheimer interviews specialists with wonder and a dry wit, covering freak accidents, apocalyptic scenarios, and the mysteries of the cosmos. Herzog narrates in his distinct Bavarian accent. His phrasing remains unparalleled, even in his simple description of a Mexican beach resort “so godforsaken it makes you want to cry.”Read More »

  • Ramin Bahrani – Plastic Bag (2009)

    2001-2010Ramin BahraniShort FilmUSA

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    This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it encounters strange creatures, experiences love in the sky, grieves the loss of its beloved maker, and tries to grasp its purpose in the world.Read More »

  • Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht – All in This Tea (2007)

    2001-2010DocumentaryGina LeibrechtLes BlankUSA

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    During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He’s a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman’s mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer’s collectives selling tea, ways to export “boutique tea” from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming’s best friend, the earthworm.Read More »

  • Werner Herzog – Family Romance, LLC (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryDramaUSA

    Synopsis
    A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.Read More »

  • Werner Herzog – Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski AKA My Best Fiend (1999)

    1991-2000ArthouseDocumentaryGermanyWerner Herzog

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    The love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski is utterly puzzling to outsiders. The film is about the deep trust between an actor and a director and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.Read More »

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