Portrait Werner Herzog

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Portrait Werner Herzog
Herzog with Lotte Eisner in Portrait Werner Herzog
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Written by	Werner Herzog
Narrated by	Werner Herzog
Starring	Werner Herzog Reinhold Messner Lotte Eisner
Cinematography	Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editing by	Maximiliane Mainka
Running time	28 min.
Country	West Germany
Language	German English

Portrait Werner Herzog (German: Werner Herzog Filmemacher) is an autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career.

The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, and a discussion between Herzog and mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which a future film project in the Himalayas involving Klaus Kinski is discussed.

[edit] External links

Portrait Werner Herzog at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Films directed by Werner Herzog

1960s	Signs of Life (1968)

1970s	Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1972) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978) Woyzeck (1978)

1980s	Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987)

1990s	Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992)

2000s	Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2007) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)

Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1980) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984) Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Somber Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Death for Five Voices (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012)

Shorts	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1967) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)