Film Directors Mediagraphy - Werner Herzog
updated (10/00)

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes [videorecording] = Aguirre, the wrath of God / produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. Aguirre, the wrath of God. Los Angeles, Calif. : Continental Video, [1985]. 1 videocassette (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Aguirre, self-styled "Wrath of God," go up the Amazon in search of gold, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip. VHS 207

Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen [videorecording] = Even dwarfs started small / Werner Herzog Filmproduktion ; Buch, Regie, Werner Herzog. Even dwarfs started small. Troy, MI . 1999. 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. A group of dwarves living in a sort of prison in a remote country are fed up with their condition and begin rebelling against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion grow to alarming proportions. VHS. Herzog, Werner, 1942- Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc. VHS 6286

Burden of dreams [videorecording] / Flower Films in association with José Koéchlin Von Stein. El Cerrito, Calif. c1982. 1 videocassette (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank's chronicle of an obsessed artist who is willing to sacrifice almost anything to realize his cinematic vision. Documents German film director Werner Herzog's struggle to complete his film Fitzcarraldo in the face of plane crashes, torrential rains, attacks by armed, hostile Indians, and the loss of several sets of leading actors. VHS 1838

Fitzcarraldo [videorecording] / Werner Herzog Filmproduktion ; Zweites Deutschen Fernsehen ; Pro-ject Filmproduktion ; New World Pictures release. Burbank, Calif. 1983. 1 videocassette (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Deep in the Amazon, a man obsessed with smoldering ambition struggles to make his fortune. His method lies in reaching an inaccessible forest of 14 million rubber tires. His madness burns in his goal: to build his own personal opera house in the jungle. VHS 514

Hanna K. [videorecording] / Films A2 ; Gaumont ; K.G. Productions. Universal City, CA . c1984. 1 videocassette (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Melodrama about a woman's search for identity in strife-torn Israel. Hanna Kaufman (Clayburgh), an Israeli defense attorney, is pregnant as a result of an affair with Joshua Herzog (Byrne), the zealous District Attorney of Jerusalem. The two wind up on opposing sides when she attempts to exonerate an accused Palestinian terrorist (Bakri) who is attempting to claim his ancestral home. VHS 6092

Herdsmen of the sun videorecording. New York : Interama, 1988. Interama video classics. 1 videocassette (52 mins.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Filming the Woodabe in the drought stricken Sahara, Herzog focuses on one tribal ritual. Once a year in what amounts to a beauty pageant, the young men dress up and parade in front of the women. Each woman must then chose and spend the next few nights with the man she finds most beautiful. Herzog, Werner, 1942-. No call number available

Herz aus Glas [videorecording] = Heart of glass / Werner Herzog Filmproduktion ; a New Yorker Films release. Heart of glass. New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 1992. The Herzog collection. 1 videocassette (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Set in the pre-industrial past, film tells the story of a German village that loses the secret of making its unique Ruby glass. The townspeople turn to madness, murder, and magic in a desperate effort to recover the pure ingredient they have lost. During the filming, Herzog hypnotized his actors in order to Help convey the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and the visionary. VHS 4314

Jeder für sich Gott gegen alle [videorecording] = The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser / Werner Herzog Filmproduktion ; co-produktion ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen). Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Every man for himself and god against all Mystery of Kaspar Hauser. Burbank, Calif. 1986. 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Film based on the true story of a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1829 after having lived in total isoalation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered. VHS 2737

Lebenszeichen [videorecording] = Signs of life / Werner Herzog Film production. Signs of life. New York : New Yorker Video, c1995. The Herzog collection. 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. An injured German soldier is sent to recuperate at a remote Greek island during the Second World War. The islands beauty tempts him with the promise of peace, but ultimately he can't accept the potential of this enchanting place. VHS 3617

My best fiend [videorecording] / a film by Werner Herzog ; a co-production of Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Café Productions, Zephir Film. Troy, MI . 1999. 1 videcassette (100 min.) : sd, col. ; 1/2 in. Documentary about the stormy relationship between frequent artistic partners, director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski. With many excerpts from the films in which they collaborated, this personal documentary traces the ups and downs of their often violent relationship. Perhaps they were both a little mad, but together they created some of the most magical and astonishing films ever seen. VHS. Herzog, Werner, 1942- Kinski, Klaus. Stipeti´c, Lucki. Cardinale, Claudia, 1939- Mattes, Eva, 1955- Presser, Beat. Rios, Guillermo. Vicente, Andres. Gonzalez, Justo. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. Café Productions Ltd. Zephir Film. Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc. SV11274 Anchor Bay Entertainment. No call number available

Nosferatu the vampyre [videorecording] = [Nosferatu the vampire] / Werner Herzog Filmproduktion ; Gaumont. Nosferatu the vampire Nosferatu : phantom der nacht Phantom der nacht Nosferatu, phantom der nacht. [United States?] . c1998. 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. A remake of the German silent classic by F.W. Murnau, closely based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Count Dracula (Kinski), bald, bat-eyed and fanged, moves to the town of Virna - which he then destroys with a plague spread by rats. The pure and self-sacrificing heroine Lucy (Adjani) must then try to save her husband Jonathan (Ganz) from the vampire. Dr. Van Helsing (Ladengast) drives the stake through the vampire heart - but Lucy is dead and Jonathan has become a vampire. VHS 5248

Stroszek [videorecording] / Werner Herzog Film production ; ZDF. New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, 1990. The Herzog collection. 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Bruno Stroszek, an ex-mental patient, can't keep from getting into trouble. Just released from his latest stay in jail, he takes up with Eva, a streetwalker, and Schertz, an eccentric old man. They decide to leave the slums of Berlin and emigrate to Railroad Flats, Wisconsin, to find the "promised land." Life is not better in a god-forsaken truckstop with mobile homes and T.V. football. VHS 4648

Woyzeck [videorecording] / Werner Herzog Filmproduktions. Inc. Werner Herzog's Woyzeck. New York, N.Y. 1990. 1 videocassette (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Overworked to exhaustion by an officer, used for experiments by a sinister doctor, and scorned by the prostitute he lives with, Woyzeck becomes as lethal as the razor with which he carries out his chilling destiny. VHS 4248