FrameThrower · Actors · Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
2 films · 114 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2007
Born 5 September 1942 · Munich, Allemagne
Werner Herzog is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.
Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 114 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2007
- Golden Lion2025
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany2012
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award2019
- Alfred P. Sloan Prize2005
- Bayerischer Poetentaler2000
- Rauriser Literaturpreis1979
- Directors Guild of America Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 114 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Werner takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 58% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Werner takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 114 frames from Werner Herzog's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.