by Paul Cronin
Locations: Antigua, San Andrés Itzapa (Guatemala)
Premiere: January 2000, ARD (German television)
2000
Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (Wings of Hope)
Non-fiction, 70 minutes (theatrical), 42 minutes (German television), 49 minutes (English television), Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Eric Spitzer
Music: Wagner, Stravinsky
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), BBC
Location: Peru
Participants: Juliane Koepcke, Moisés Rengito Chavez, Juan Limber Ribera Soto, Richard Silva Manujama, Ricardo Oroche Rengite, El Moro
Premiere: February 2000, ZDF (German television)
2001
Pilgrimage
Non-fiction, 18 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Camera: Jorge Pacheco, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Erik Söllner
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Neil Pemperton
Music: John Tavener (Mahámátra performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin, performed by Parvin Cox and the Westminster Cathedral Choir)
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (for BBC)
Locations: Mexico, Siberia
Premiere: March 2001, London
2001
Invincible
Fiction, 130 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Producers: Gary Bart, Werner Herzog, Christine Ruppert
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Simon Willis
Music: Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Tatfilm Produktion
Locations: Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Christmas Island (Australia), Black Island Studios (London), Monterey Bay Aquarium
Cast: Tim Roth (Hanussen), Jouko Ahola (Zishe Breitbart), Anna Gourari (Marta Farra), Jacob Wein (Benjamin Breitbart), Max Raabe (Master of Ceremonies), Gustav Peter Woehler (Landwehr), Udo Kier (Count Helldorf), Herb Golder (Rabbi Edelmann), Gary Bart (Yitzak Breitbart), Renata Krössner (Mother Breitbart)
Premiere: September 2001, Venice Film Festival
2002
Ten Thousand Years Older [part of Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet] Non-fiction, 10 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Vincente Rios
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Walter Saxer
Music: Paul Englishby (performed by Hugh Masekela)
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Location: Brazil
Premiere: May 2002, Cannes Film Festival
2003
Rad der Zeit (Wheel of Time)
Non-fiction, 80 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producers: Werner Herzog, André Singer
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Eric Spitzer
Music: Prem Rana Autari, Sur Sudha-Autari, Vaidya Bihaya, Lhamo Dolma, Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh), Shresta Surendra
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Café Productions
Locations: Graz (Austria), Bodhgaya (India), Mount Kailash (Tibet, China)
Participants: Dalai Lama, Manfred Klell, Tenzin Dhargye
Premiere: March 2003, BBC Television
2004
The White Diamond
Non-fiction, 87 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producers: Werner Herzog, Annette Scheurich, Lucki Stipetić
Camera: Henning Brümmer, Klaus Scheurich
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Eric Spitzer
Music: Ernst Reijseger
Production Companies: Marco Polo Film, NDR Naturfilm, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, BBC
Locations: Bedford (England), Guyana
Participants: Graham Dorrington, Marc Anthony Yhap, Jason Gibson, Jan-Peter Meewes
Premiere: November 2004, Halle (Germany)
2005
Grizzly Man
Non-fiction, 103 minutes, Super 16, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Erik Nelson
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Ken King
Music: Richard Thompson
Production Company: Real Big Productions (for Lionsgate Films and Discovery Docs)
Location: Katmai National Park (Alaska)
Participants: Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Jewel Palovak, Carol Dexter, Val Dexter, Sam Egli
Premiere: January 2005, Sundance Film Festival
2005
The Wild Blue Yonder
Non-fiction, 81 minutes, HDCAM, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Camera: Henry Kaiser, Tanja Koop, Klaus Scheurich
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Joe Crabb
Music: Ernst Reijseger
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, West Park Pictures
Locations: Niland (California), McMurdo Station (Antarctic)
Cast: Brad Dourif, Michael McCulley, Ted Sweetser, Roger Diehl, Donald Williams
Premiere: September 2005, Venice Film Festival
2006
Rescue Dawn
Fiction, 126 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Producers: Steve Marlton, Elton Brand, Harry Knapp
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Paul Paragon
Music: Klaus Badelt
Production Company: Top Gun Productions
Location: Thailand
Cast: Christian Bale (Dieter Dengler), Steve Zahn (Duane Martin), Jeremy Davies (Eugene DeBruin), Chorn Solyda (Walkie Talkie)
Premiere: September 2006, Toronto Film Festival
2007
Encounters at the End of the World
Non-fiction, 99 minutes, HDCAM, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producers: Henry Kaiser, Erik Nelson
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Werner Herzog
Music: Henry Kaiser, David Lindley
Production Companies: Discovery Films, Creative Differences
Location: McMurdo Station (Antarctic)
Participants: Scott Rowland, David Ainley, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal, Ryan Andrew Evans, Kevin Emery, Olav T. Oftedal, Regina Eisert, Clive Oppenheimer, Libor Zicha, Karen Joyce, Sam Bowser, David Pacheco
Premiere: September 2007, Telluride Film Festival
2009
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
Fiction, 122 minutes, 35mm, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: William M. Finkelstein
Producers: Stephen Belafonte, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky, Edward R. Pressman
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Jay Meagher
Music: Mark Isham
Production Companies: Millennium Films, Edward R. Pressman Films, Saturn Films, Polsky Films
Location: New Orleans
Cast: Nicolas Cage (Terence McDonagh), Eva Mendes (Frankie Donnenfield), Val Kilmer (Steve Pruit), Alvin “Xzibit” Joiner (Big Fate), Fairuza Balk (Heidi), Jennifer Coolidge (Genevieve), Tom Bower (Pat McDonagh), Brad Dourif (Ned Schoenholtz), Irma Hall (Binnie Rogers), Michael Shannon (Mundt)
Premiere: September 2009, Venice Film Festival
2009
La Bohème
Non-fiction
, 4 minutes, HDCAM, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Andre Singer
Camera: Richard Blanshard
Editor: Joe Bini
Music: Puccini
Production Companies: Sky Arts, English National Opera
Location: Ethiopia
Premiere: September 2009, Venice Film Festival
2009
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Fiction, 93 minutes, HDCAM, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Herbert Golder, Werner Herzog
Producer: Eric Bassett
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Greg Agalsoff
Music: Ernst Reijseger
Production Companies: Defilm, Paper Street Films
Locations: San Diego, Kashgar (China), Tijuana (Mexico), Peru (Urubamba Valley)
Cast: Michael Shannon (Brad Macallam), Willem Dafoe (Detective Hank Havenhurst), Chloë Sevigny (Ingrid Gudmundson), Udo Kier (Lee Meyers), Michael Peña (Detective Vargas), Grace Zabriskie (Mrs Macallam), Brad Dourif (Uncle Ted), Irma Hall (Mrs Roberts)
Premiere: September 2009, Venice Film Festival
2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Non-fiction, 90 minutes, 3D, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producers: Erik Nelson, Adrienne Ciuffo
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Eric Spitzer
Music: Ernst Reijseger
Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Creative Differences, ARTE
Locations: Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, France
Participants: Jean Clottes, Julien Monney, Jean-Michel Geneste, Michel Philippe
Premiere: September 2010, Toronto Film Festival
2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Non-fiction, 90 minutes, Video, colour
Director: Dmitry Vasyukov
Co-Director: Werner Herzog
Producers: Christoph Fisser, Vladimir Perepelkin, Nick N. Raslan, Charlie Woebcken
Camera: Alexy Matveev, Gleb Stephanov, Arthur Sibirski, Michael Tarkovsky
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Robert Getty
Music: Klaus Badelt
Production Company: Studio Babelsberg
Location: Siberia, Russia
Premiere: November 2010, Germany
2011
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Non-fiction, 30 minutes, Video, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Camera: Werner Herzog
Editor: Maya Hawke
Sound: Werner Herzog
Music: Ernst Reijseger
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Location: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Participants: Ernst Reijseger, Sean Bergin, Harmen Fraanje
Premiere: September 2011, Telluride Film Festival
2011
Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life
Non-fiction, 107 minutes, HDCAM, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Erik Nelson
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Steve Osmon
Music: Mark De Gli Antoni
Production Companies: Creative Differences, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Location: Texas
Participants: Michael Perry, Jason Burkett, Richard Lopez, Lisa Stotler-Balloun, Jared Talbert, Damon Hall
Premiere: September 2011, Toronto Film Festival
2012–13
On Death Row
Non-fiction, 8 × 52 minutes, HDCAM, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Erik Nelson
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger, Dave Roberson
Editors: Joe Bini, Marco Capalbo
Sound: Steve Osmon
Music: Mark De Gli Antoni
Production Companies: Creative Differences, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Locations: Texas, Florida
Participants: James Barnes, Joseph Garcia, George Rivas, Hank Skinner, Linda Carty, Blaine Milam, Darlie Routier, Douglas Feldman, Robert Fratta
Premiere: February 2012, Berlin Film Festival; August 2013, Locarno Film Festival
2013
From One Second to the Next
Non-fiction, 35 minutes, HDCAM, colour
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: George Sholley
Camera: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Sound: Steve Osmon
Music: Mark De Gli Antoni
Production Companies: AT&T, Verizon Communications
Locations: Wisconsin, Indiana, Vermont, Utah
Participants: Xzavier Davis-Bilbo, Reggie Shaw, Debbie Drewniak, Chandler Gerber
Premiere: August 2013, Locarno Film Festival
OPERA STAGINGS
1985 Doktor Faust (Busoni), Teatro Comunale, Bologna
1987 Lohengrin (Wagner), Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
1989 Giovanna d’Arco (Verdi), Teatro Comunale, Bologna
1991 Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Teatro Bellini, Catania
1992 La donna del lago (Rossini), Teatro La Scala, Milan
1993 Der fliegende Holländer (Wagner), Opera Bastille, Paris 1994 Il Guarany (Gomes), Bonn Opera
1994 Norma (Bellini), Arena di Verona
1996 Il Guarany (Gomes), the Washington Opera
1997 Chusingura (Saegusa), Opera Tokyo
1997 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Teatro de la Maestranza, Sevilla
1997 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Opera Royal de Wallonie, Liège
1998 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
1998 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Teatro Massimo, Palermo
1999 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Teatro Real, Madrid
1999 Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Teatro Bellini, Catania
1999 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Teatro Real, Madrid
1999 Fidelio (Beethoven), Teatro La Scala, Milan
2000 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Baltimore Opera Company
2001 Giovanna d’Arco (Verdi), Teatro Carlo Felice, Genua
2001 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro
2001 Tannhäuser (Wagner), Grand Opera, Houston
2001 Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Baltimore Opera Company
2002 Der fliegende Holländer (Wagner), Domstufen Festspiele, Erfurt
2003 Fidelio (Beethoven), Teatro La Scala, Milan
2008 Parsifal (Wagner), Palau de les Arts, Valencia
2013 I due Foscari (Verdi), Teatro dell’Opera, Rome
Index
Abelard, Pierre, 1
Aborigines, Australian, 1, 2, 3, 4
Abu Sayyaf, 1
Achternbusch, Herbert, 1, 2, 3, 4
Act of Killing, The (Oppenheimer), 1
Adair, Red, 1
Ades, Daniel, 1
Adorf, Mario, 1
Aeschylus, 1
Aguarunas, 1, 2
Aguirre, the Wrath of God: budget, 1, 2, 3;
cameraman, 1, 2;
character of Aguirre, 1, 2, 3, 4;
distribution, 1;
editing, 1;
filming, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
final shot, 1;
genre, 1;
humour, 1;
hypnotised audience, 1;
Indian extras, 1;
influences, 1, 2;
Kinski in, 1, 2, 3, 4;
landscapes, 1;
language, 1;
making, 1, 2, 3, 4;
monkeys, 1;
mood, 1;
music, 1;
opening sequence, 1, 2, 3;
poster, 1;
preproduction, 1, 2, 3, 4;
rejected by Cannes, 1;
release, 1;
responses to, 1, 2n, 3, 4;
shipping of exposed negative, 1;
soundtrack, 1;
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story, 1, 2;
surreal qualities, 1;
time in, 1;
voiceover, 1;
working with actors, 1
Ahola, Jouko, 1
Ainley, David, 1
Akhenaten, 1, 2
Akzente: Zeitschrift für Literatur, 1
Alaska, 1, 2, 3, 4
Alexander, Peter, 1
Ali, Muhammad, 1, 2
All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy), 1
Allen, Fred, 1
Altdorfer, Albrecht, 1, 2
Amahuacas, 1
America, America (Kazan), 1
Amnesty International, 1
Amundsen, Roald, 1, 2
Andrade, Joaquim Pedro de, 1
Angelopoulos, Theo, 1
Angelyne, 1
Anger, Kenneth, 1
Apocalypse Now (Coppola), 1
Archimedes, 1
Archivo General de Las Indias (Seville), 1
Arizona State University Origins Project, 1, 2
Astaire, Fred, 1, 2, 3
Astor, André, 1
AT&T, 1
Atlantis space shuttle, 1
Ayak Brothers, 1
Aztecs, 1, 2, 3, 4
Baader-Meinhof Group/Red Army Faction, 1
Bacchae, The (Euripides), 1
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1, 2
Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara), 1
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans: budget, 1;
Cage in, 1, 2, 3;
character, 1;
editing, 1, 2;
final scene, 1;
humour, 1;
music, 1;
New Orleans setting, 1;
opening sequence, 1;
place in Herzog’s career, 1, 2;
script, 1, 2;
title, 1
Badelt, Klaus, 1
Bailey, John, 1
Baker, J. A., 1
Bale, Christian, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ballad of the Little Soldier, 1, 2
Barnes, James, 1, 2
Bart, Gary, 1, 2
Battle of Alexander (Altdorfer), 1
Battle of Algiers, The (Pontecorvo), 1, 2
Bavaria: dialect, 1, 2, 3, 4;
fighting, 1;
folklore, 1;
Heart of Glass filming, 1;
Herzog’s childhood, 1;
Herzog’s feeling for, 1, 2, 3, 4;
landscapes, 1, 2, 3;
police, 1;
ski flying, 1;
traditional costumes, 1;
white supremacists, 1
Bayern Munich, 1, 2
Bayreuth Wagner Festival, 1, 2, 3, 4
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 1, 2
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1
Behan, Brendan, 1