Born in Munich in 1942, Herzog is a prolific director of fiction and documentaries who is drawn to obsessive characters and extreme landscapes. His collaborations with the actor Klaus Kinski were famously stormy.
Filmography
- Signs of Life (1968)
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
- Fata Morgana (1971)
- Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
- Heart of Glass (1976)
- Stroszek (1977)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
- Woyzeck (1979)
- Fitzcarraldo (1982)
- Cobra Verde (1987)
- Lessons of Darkness (1992)
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
- My Best Fiend (1999)
- Grizzly Man (2005)
- Rescue Dawn (2006)
- Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
- Into the Abyss (2011)
- Family Romance, LLC (2019)