by Paul Cronin
1976
Mit mir will keiner spielen (No One Will Play with Me)
Non-fiction, 14 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Haymo Henry Heyder
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht
Location: Munich
1976
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck …: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache (How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck …: Observations on a New Language)
Non-fiction, 45 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Thomas Mauch
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Walter Saxer
Music: Shorty Eager and the Eager Beavers
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Süddeutscher Rundfunk
Location: New Holland, Pennsylvania
Participants: Steve Liptay, Ralph Wade, Alan Ball, Abe Diffenbach
Premiere: June 1976, Hof International Film Festival
1976
Stroszek
Fiction, 108 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Thomas Mauch
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Haymo Henry Heyder
Music: Chet Atkins, Sonny Terry, Tom Paxton, Beethoven
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Locations: Berlin, New York, Wisconsin, North Carolina
Cast: Bruno S. (Stroszek), Eva Mattes (Eva), Clemens Scheitz (Scheitz)
Premiere: May 1977, Munich
1977
La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe (La Soufrière: Waiting for an Unavoidable Catastrophe)
Non-fiction, 30 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Ed Lachman
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Werner Herzog
Music: Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (for Süddeutscher Rundfunk)
Location: Guadeloupe
Premiere: March 1977, Bonn
1979
Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre)
Fiction, 103 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Harald Maury
Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh), Wagner, Gounod
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Gaumont, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Locations: Czech Republic, Netherlands, Mexico, Slovakia
Cast: Klaus Kinski (Count Dracula), Isabelle Adjani (Lucy Harker), Bruno Ganz (Jonathan Harker), Jaques Dufilho (Captain), Roland Topor (Renfield), Walter Ladengast (Dr van Helsing)
Premiere: January 1979, Paris
1979
Woyzeck
Fiction, 81 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog (from the play by Georg Büchner)
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Harald Maury
Music: Fiedelquartett Telč, Rudolf Obruca, Benedetto Marcello, Vivaldi
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Location: Czech Republic
Cast: Klaus Kinski (Woyzeck), Eva Mattes (Marie), Wolfgang Reichmann (Hauptmann), Willy Semmelrogge (Doctor), Josef Bierbichler (Drum-Major), Paul Burian (Andres)
Premiere: May 1979, Cannes
1980
Glaube und Währung (God’s Angry Man)
Non-fiction, 44 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Thomas Mauch
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Walter Saxer
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (for Süddeutscher Rundfunk)
Location: Glendale, California
Participant: Dr Gene Scott
Premiere: May 1981, ARD (German television)
1980
Huie’s Predigt (Huie’s Sermon)
Non-fiction, 43 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Thomas Mauch
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Walter Saxer
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (for Süddeutscher Rundfunk)
Location: New York
Participant: Bishop Huie L. Rogers
Premiere: June 1981, ARD (German television)
1982
Fitzcarraldo
Fiction, 137 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Producers: Lucki Stipetić, Werner Herzog
Camera: Thomas Mauch
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Jaurez Dagoberto Costa, Zezé d’Alice
Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh), Verdi, Bellini
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Filmverlag der Autoren
Locations: Iquitos, Río Camisea (Peru), Manaus and Iquito (Brazil)
Cast: Klaus Kinski (Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald), Claudia Cardinale (Molly), José Lewgoy (Don Aquilino), Paul Hittscher (Captain), Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez (Huerequeque)
Premiere: March 1982, Munich
1984
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (Where the Green Ants Dream)
Fiction, 100 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound: Claus Langer
Music: Fauré, Bloch, Wagner, Klaus-Jochen Wiese, Wandjuk Marika
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Filmverlag der Autoren
Locations: Melbourne, Coober Pedy (Australia)
Cast: Bruce Spence (Hackett), Wandjuk Marika (Miliritbi), Roy Marika (Dayipu), Ray Barrett (Cole), Norman Kaye (Ferguson), Colleen Clifford (Miss Strehlow)
Premiere: May 1984, Cannes Film Festival
1984
Ballad of the Little Soldier (Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten)
Non-fiction, 45 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Jorge Vignati
Editor: Maximiliane Mainka
Sound: Christine Ebenberger
Music: Folk songs performed by Isidoro Reyes and Paladino Taylor
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (for Süddeutscher Rundfunk)
Locations: Nicaragua, Honduras
Participants Miskito Indians of Nicaragua
Premiere: October 1984, Hof International Film Festival
1984
Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg (The Dark Glow of the Mountains)
Non-fiction, 45 minutes, 16mm and Super 8, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Rainer Klausmann
Editor: Maximiliane Mainka
Sound: Christine Ebenberger
Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh), Renate Knaup, Daniel Fichelscher
Location: Karakorum, Pakistan
Participants: Reinhold Messner, Hans Kammerlander
Premiere: June 1985, ARD (German television)
1987
Cobra Verde
Fiction, 110 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog (from the novel The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin)
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Viktor Růžička
Editor: Maximiliane Mainka, Rainer Standke
Sound: Haymo Henry Heyder
Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh)
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Locations: Dahomey (Benin), Elmina, Tamale (Ghana), Cartagena, Cali and Guajira (Colombia), Juazeiro do Norte, Bahia (Brazil)
Cast: Klaus Kinski (Francisco Manoel da Silva), King Ampaw (Taparica), José Lewgoy (Don Octavio Coutinho), Salvatore Basile (Captain Fraternidade), Peter Berling (Bernabé), Guillermo Coronel (Euclides), His Royal Highness King Nana Agyefi Kwame II of Nsein (Bossa Ahadee)
Premiere: December 1987, Munich
1988
Les Français vus par … les Gauloises
Non-fiction, 12 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Rainer Standke
Sound: Bernard Aubouy
Production Company: Erato Films
Locations: Paris, Toulouse
Participants: Claude Josse, Jean Clemente, the rugby team of Stade Toulousain and the Sporting Club of Graulheit
1989
Wodaabe, Die Hirten der Sonne (Wodaabe, Herdsmen of the Sun)
Non-fiction, 52 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Patrick Sandrin
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Maximiliane Mainka
Sound: Walter Saxer
Music: Gounod, Mozart, Handel, Verdi
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (for Süddeutscher Rundfunk)
Location: Southern Sahara (Republic of Niger)
Participants: Members of the Wodaabe
Premiere: June 1989, Südwest 3 (German television)
1990
Echos aus einem düsteren Reich (Echoes from a Sombre Empire)
Non-fiction, 93 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Rainer Standke
Sound: Harald Maury
Music: Bartók, Prokofiev, Lutoslawski, Schubert, Shostakovich, Bach, Esther Lamandier
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, SERA Filmproduktion, Films sans Frontières
Locations: Central African Republic, France, Venice
Participants: Michael Goldsmith, François Gilbault, Augustine Assemat, Francis Szpiner, David Dacko, Marie-Reine Hassen
Premiere: November 1990, Paris
1991
Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (Scream of Stone)
Fiction, 105 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Hans-Ulrich Klenner, Walter Saxer, Robert Geoffrion (from an original idea by Reinhold Messner)
Producers: Walter Saxer, Henry Lange, Richard Sadler
Camera: Rainer Klausmann
Editor: Suzanne Baron, Anne Wagner
Sound: Christopher Price
Music: Heinrich Schütz, Wagner, Ingram Marshall, Sarah Hopkins, Alan Lamb, Atahualpa Yupanqui
Production Companies: Sera Filmproduktions GmbH, Molecule, Les Stock Films International, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Canal+
Locations: Patagonia (Argentina), Munich, Australia, Grenoble (France)
Cast: Vittorio Mezzogiorno (Roccia), Stefan Glowacz (Martin), Mathilda May (Katharina), Donald Sutherland (Ivan), Brad Dourif (Fingerless), Al Waxman (Stephen)
Premiere: September 1991, Venice Film Festival
1991
Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadjah von Udaipur (The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur)
Non-fiction, 85 minutes, 16mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Rainer Klausmann
Editor: Michou Hutter, Ursula Darrer
Sound: Herbert Giesser
Production Company: Neue Studio Film GmbH (for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen and Österreichischer Rundfunk)
Location: Udaipur (India)
Participants: André Heller, Manipuri Jagoi, Deb Des Baul, Pusekhan Hayatm, Huyel Lallong, Devi Bhakta, Pazur, Damodara Marar, M. Mariyan Pillai, Raghu Presed, V. P. Paul
Premiere: November 1991, ORF (Austrian television)
1991
Film Stunde (Film Lessons)
Non-fiction, 4 × 60 minutes, Betacam, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Gerda Weissenberger
Camera: Karl Kofler, Michael Ferk
Editor: Albert Skalak
Production Company: Österreichischer Rundfunk
Location: Vienna
Participants: Michael Kreihsl, Jeff Sheridan, Peter Turrini, Volker Schlöndorff, Kamal Saiful Islam, Philippe Petit, Ryszard Kapuściński
Premiere: December 1991, ORF (Austrian television)
1992
Lektionen in Finsternis (Lessons of Darkness)
Non-fiction, 52 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Paul Berriff, Simon Werry, Rainer Klausmann
Editor: Rainer Standke
Sound: John G. Pearson
Music: Wagner, Grieg, Prokofiev, Pärt, Verdi, Schubert, Mahler
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Canal+, Premiere Medien GmbH
Location: Kuwait
Premiere: February 1991, Berlin Film Festival
1993
Glocken aus der Tiefe (Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia)
Non-fiction, 60 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producers: Lucki Stipetić, Ira Barmak
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Rainer Standke
Sound: Vyacheslav Belozerou
Music: Choir of the Spiritual Academy, Saint Petersburg, Choir of the Zagorsk Monastery, Choir of the Pühtica Dormition Convent
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Location: Siberia (Russia)
Premiere: November 1993, Stockholm Film Festival
1994
Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik (The Transformation of the World into Music)
Non-fiction, 90 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Rainer Standke
Sound: Ekkehard Baumung
Music: Wagner (Choir and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival)
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (for ARTE and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen)
Locations: Bayreuth, Linderhof Castle
Participants: Wolfgang Wagner, Sven Friedrich, Yohji Yamamoto, Plácido Domingo, Dieter Dorn, Heiner Müller, Waltraud Meier, Siegfried Jerusalem
Premiere: July 1996, ZDF (German television)
1995
Gesualdo, Tod für fünf Stimmen (Death for Five Voices)
Non-fiction, 60 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Rainer Standke
Sound: Ekkehard Baumung
Music: Gesualdo, Wagner
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen)
> Locations: Ferrara, Castel Gesualdo, Arezzo, Venosa, Naples
Participants: Pasquale D’Onofrio, Salvatore Catorano, Angelo Carrabs, Milva, Angelo Michele Torriello, Raffaele Virocolo, Vincenzo Giusto, Giovanni Iudica, Walter Beloch, Principe D’Avalos, Antonio Massa, Alan Curtis, Gennaro Miccio, Silvano Milli, Marisa Milli, Gerald Place, Alberto Lanini, Il Complesso Barocco, Gesualdo Consort of London
Premiere: November 1996, ZDF (German television)
1997
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Flucht aus Laos)
Non-fiction, 80 minutes (theatrical), 52 minutes (English/German television), Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Ekkehard Baumung
Music: Bartók, Carlos Gardel, Glenn Miller, Kongar-ol Ondar, Wagner, Dvořák, Bach, folk music of the people of Sayan Altal and the Ural mountains
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Café Productions (for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, BBC and ARTE)
Locations: Thailand, San Francisco, Tuscon, San Diego, Wildberg (Black Forest)
Participant: Dieter Dengler
Premiere: February 1998, Portland International Film Festival
1999
Mein liebster Feind (My Best Fiend)
Non-fiction, 95 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Eric Spitzer
Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh)
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Café Productions, Zephir Film
Locations: Peru, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Munich, Paris, San Francisco
Participants: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Claudia Cardinale, Beat Presser, Guillermo Rios, Andres Vicente, Justo Gonzalez, Benino Moreno Placido, Baron und Baronin von d. Recke, José Koechlin von Stein
Premiere: May 1999, Cannes Film Festival
1999
Gott and die Beladenen (The Lord and the Laden)
Non-fiction, 43 minutes, digital video, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producers: Martin Choroba, Joachim Puls
Camera: Jorge Vignati
Editor: Joe Bini, Thomas Staunton
Sound: Francisco Adrianzén
Music: Gounod, di Lasso
Production Company: Tellux Film