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Herzog to head Berlin Film Festival jury -
21 November 2009
-German director Werner Herzog will head the jury at next year's (10) Berlin Film Festival.-
-Herzog, currently overseeing the release of his latest project, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, was chosen because he "influenced an entire generation of filmmakers"
Werner Herzog - what members say
Werner Herzog - filmography
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Rescue Dawn - BLU-RAY Version
(2007)
Starring: Steve Zahn, Zach Grenier, Jeremy Davies
Director: Werner Herzog
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Incomparable director Werner Herzog takes another strange turn in his eclectic career with RESCUE DAWN--a major studio picture starring Christian Bale (BATMAN BEGINS). The film is an adaptation of Herzog's 1997 documentary LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY, which focused on Dieter Dengler, a pilot who was ..read more »
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68%
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Rescue Dawn
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
Director: Werner Herzog
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Incomparable director Werner Herzog takes another strange turn in his eclectic career with RESCUE DAWN--a major studio picture starring Christian Bale (BATMAN BEGINS). The film is an adaptation of Herzog's 1997 documentary LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY, which focused on Dieter Dengler, a pilot who was ..read more »
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66%
from 18,556 members
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The Wild Blue Yonder
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Brad Dourif, Capt. Donald Williams, Dr. Ellen Baker
Director: Werner Herzog
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The film follows a hypothetical proposition: a group of astronauts are circling the earth in a spacecraft, but they cannot return, as our planet has become uninhabitable. The cause of this is a mystery. The crew of the spacecraft has to find a more hospitable place out there in space, and releases ..read more »
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48%
from 599 members
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Wheel Of Time
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Dalai Lama
Director: Werner Herzog
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Wheel of Time is acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo) gorgeously photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India. Herzog magically captures the lengthy pilgrimage (which for some, is over 3,000 miles), the monk's creation of ..read more »
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69%
from 295 members
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Grizzly Man
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Timothy Treadwell
Director: Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog's persistent inquiry into the motivations of human obsession focuses this time on the self-proclaimed kind warrior Timothy Treadwell. A passionate wildlife preservationist and grizzly bear devotee, Treadwell lived unarmed among the grizzlies in a remote section of Alaska for 13 years, ..read more »
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63%
from 15,221 members
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Grizzly Man - BLU-RAY Version
(2005)
Starring: Timothy Treadwell
Director: Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog's persistent inquiry into the motivations of human obsession focuses this time on the self-proclaimed kind warrior Timothy Treadwell. A passionate wildlife preservationist and grizzly bear devotee, Treadwell lived unarmed among the grizzlies in a remote section of Alaska for 13 years, ..read more »
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71%
from 97 members
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White Diamond, The - BLU-RAY Version
(2004)
Director: Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog once again turns his eye to the beautiful and dangerous wilds of the Amazon in this documentary. Dr Graham Dorrington is a scientist who specialises in designing experimental aircraft, and in 1992 he invented a unique man-powered airship intended to travel into the Amazon canopy of ..read more »
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62%
from 23 members
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Invincible
(2001)
Starring: Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Anna Gourari
Director: Werner Herzog
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The film is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith's son from Poland who becomes a sensation in Weimar, Berlin as a mythical strongman. His employer Hanussen dreams of establishing an all-powerful Ministry of the Occult in Hitler's government. Yet as Hitler's hold on power ..read more »
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53%
from 25 members
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Julien Donkey Boy
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Ewen Bremner, Joyce Korine
Director: Harmony Korine
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Flashing a mouthful of fake gold teeth, Julien (Ewen Bremner) wanders the streets of New York City, mumbling nonsensical syllables to himself. He tries to avoid the abuse of his sadistic drunken gas-mask-wearing father (German director Werner Herzog). He cracks a young boy's head open with a rock. ..read more »
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55%
from 1,285 member
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Dieter Dengler
Director: Werner Herzog
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"Little Dieter Needs to Fly" is a documentary about Dieter Dengler, a German who grew up with a passion for flight and emigrated to the U.S. to join the navy and become a pilot during the Vietnam War. Dieter was shot down, captured and tortured before becoming one of the few American prisoners to ..read more »
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78%
from 636 members
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Scream Of Stone
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Brad Dourif, Donald Sutherland, Mathilda May
Director: Werner Herzog
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Two experienced climbers, Roccia and Martin, are rivals who challenge each other to climb one of the most difficult mountains in the world, Cerre Torre in Argentina's Patagonia. This dangerous challenge was sparked by the death of a mutual friend, and animosity over Martin stealing Roccia's ..read more »
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53%
from 202 members
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Tokyo-Ga
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Werner Herzog, Yuuharu Atsuta
Director: Wim Wenders
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Having been moved by the work of acclaimed director Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders travels to Japan to search out the Tokyo he has seen in his films, discovering along the way how the country is losing its identity and culture to Americanisation.
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65%
from 96 members
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Where the Green Ants Dream
(1984)
Starring: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika
Director: Werner Herzog
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"Where the Green Ants Dream" is the incredible story of an Aboriginal tribe's struggle to save their sacred grounds from encroaching civilization. They believe that man's so-called reality is no more than the dream of a strange insect indigenous to the Australian continent.
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60%
from 10 members
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Signs of Life
(1968)
Starring: Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou
Director: Werner Herzog
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On Crete, a wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet city of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There's little to do: Becker, a classicist, translates ..read more »
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50%
from 3 members
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Werner Herzog Box Set 2
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer
Director: Werner Herzog
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A box set collecting together five key works by the great Werner Herzog: Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970), Fata Morgana (1971), The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart Of Glass (1976) and Stroszek (1977).
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69%
from 740 members
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Encounters In The Natural World - BLU-RA...
(3 discs)
Director: Werner Herzog
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Encounters in the Natural World brings together five stunning films from legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog. Featuring previously unseen, breathtaking scenery and wildlife, these films span the globe, from desert to jungle to tropical to frozen. They detail the rich tapestry of life on our planet ..read more »
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45%
from 15 members
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The White Diamond
on DVD
Director: Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog once again turns his eye on the beautiful and dangerous wilds of the Amazon in this documentary. Dr. Graham Dorrington is a scientist who specializes in designing experimental aircraft, and in 1992 he invented a unique man-powered airship intended to travel into the Amazon canopy of ..read more »
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67%
from 46 members
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Encounters In The Natural World
(4 discs)
on DVD
Director: Werner Herzog
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Encounters in the Natural World brings together five stunning films from legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog. Featuring previously unseen, breathtaking scenery and wildlife, these films span the globe, from desert to jungle to tropical to frozen. They detail the rich tapestry of life on our planet ..read more »
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65%
from 20 members
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Land of Silence and Darkness
Director: Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog trains his camera on documentary subject Fini Straubinger in this exploratory look at her life as a kind hearted woman who is both deaf and blind. Straubinger has dedicated a large portion of her life caring for those who are similarly afflicted, and Herzog explicitly details both her ..read more »
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58%
from 7 members
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Werner Herzog Box Set 1
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Eva Mattes
Director: Werner Herzog
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A boxset containing all the collaborations between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski.AGUIRRE, THE MAN OF GOD: Widely considered to be Herzog's finest film, is the tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold, in 16th-century Peru. NOSFERATU: PHANTOM DER NACHT: Stark,..read more »
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71%
from 2,297 members
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Werner Herzog facts
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a darkly comic/tragic wonder 23 October 2007
... dangerous pregnant ice skating have an unbearable tension to them.
Director Werner Herzog, a clear influence on Harmony Korine, is also a disturbing and powerful presenc...
A mountaineering drama that lacks dramatic drive and a decent script 3 November 2009
Little-known Rossini, but pretty good 24 May 2006
