"Director: Werner Herzog"

• Heart Of Glass | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Perhaps most notable for the fact that all but one of the cast perform quite literally under the hypnotic spell of the director himself 'HEart Of Glass' is one of Werner Herzog's most stylised challenging and visionary films. A stunning piece of work in 1977 the film was awarded the German Gold Film Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography. When the owner of the local glass factory passes away without divulging the secret formula for making a magical ruby g

• Woyzeck | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Werner Herzog's brilliant adaptation of Georg Buchner's 'Woyzeck' Klaus Kinski delivers a wild and stunning performance in a role only he could play. Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless solider alone and powerless in society assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured both physically and psychologically by commanding officers doctors and his unfaithful wife Marie (Eva Mattes Best Supporting Actress at Cannes) Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his

• La Donna Del Lago - Rossini | DVD | (22/10/2004) from £9.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (8.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  La donna del lagoGiachino Rossini (1792-1868)Director Werner Herzog and conductor Riccardo Muti combine with the finest of casts to lavish Rossini's rarely performed Neapolitan masterpiece set in feudal sixteenth-century Scotland with the genius it deserves. June Anderson is an outstanding Elena (the Lady of the Lake) in the 1992 production of the melodrama based on Sir Walter Scott's poem. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses.

• Giovanna D'Arco - Teatro Comunale Di Bologna | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A performance of Verdi's seventh opera 'Giovanna D'Arco ' performed by the Orchestra Communale Di Bologna and conducted by Riccardo Chailly

• Invincible | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £12.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (45.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Of all the tales from Weimar Germany there is none stranger than that of Zishe Breitbart (Jouko Ahola). He was a Jewish blacksmith’s son who became a sensation in Berlin in the 1930s performing as a mythical Nordic-style strongman. His employer was con-man, cabaret show promoter and self-proclaimed mystic Hannussen (Tim Roth) who dreamed of forming a Ministry of the Occult in Hitler’s government. As anti-Semitism took hold, Hannussen’s star act decides he has been chosen by God to warn his people. Werner Herzog’s fundamental and quite brilliant allegorical fable boasts an original score by legendary composers Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt. Special Features: Trailer Image bank

• Grizzly Man | Blu Ray | (19/10/2009) from £4.89   |  Saving you £15.10 (75.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this mesmerizing documentary acclaimed director Werner Herzog explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell. Treadwell lived unarmed among the bears for thirteen summers and filmed his adventures in the wild during his final five seasons. In October 2003 Treadwell's remains along with those of his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were discovered near their campsite in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Reserve. They had been mauled and devoured by a grizzly the first known victims of a bear attack in the park. (The bear suspected of the killings was later shot by park officials). Herzog plumbs not only the mystery of wild nature but also the mystery of human nature as he chronicles Treadwell's final years in the wilderness. Herzog uses Treadwell's own startling documentary footage to paint a nuanced portrait of a complex and compelling figure while exploring larger questions about the uneasy relationship between man and nature.

• Gesualdo - Death For Five Voices | DVD | (02/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bearing all the hallmarks of Herzog's eccentric and original talent, this atmospheric documentary tells the chilling story of the sixteenth-century composer Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, one embracing sexual excess, ghastly murder and obsession. Filmed on location it Italy, it explores both his musical legacy and the extraordinary influence his tormented life has continued to exert on some of those who lives have crossed his past.

• White Diamond | Blu Ray | (19/10/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Feature documentary film directed produced and written by Werner Herzog about scientist Dr Graham Dorrington and his attempt to fly the unique man-powered airship he invented himself across the Amazon canopy of Guyana in 1992. The hope was that they would be able to locate and study the medicinal herbs growing there however things took a tragic turn when the aircraft encountered difficulties leading to an accident which claimed the life of Dieter Plage Dorrington's friend and filmmaker who was documenting the expedition. Ten years later Herzog follows Dorrington as he returns with a new prototype of the airship and visits the canopys forests and people of the Amazon while recounting the terrible fate of his last voyage.

• Fitzcarraldo | DVD | (04/03/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Iquitos, Peru, is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle at the turn of the century. On the outskirts, a few shacks are rotting in the mud. In the centre are the splendid houses of the nouveaux-riches rubber barons. It is in this setting, rich in grotesque contrast, that Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - Fitzcarraldo, as the natives call him - has his dream of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great celebration of Grand Opera. To finance his fantastic dream, Fitzcarra.

• Nosferatu The Vampyre | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It is 1850 in the beautiful perfectly kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalise real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife Lucy (Isabel Adjani) begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the midst of a vampire. What he doesn't know however is the magnitude of danger he his wife and his town are about to experience as victims of the Nosferatu. Directed by Werner Herzog a leading figure in German Cinema's 'new wave' of the 1970's Nosferatu is widely recognised as one of the finest films of the vampire genre. A homage to F. W. Murnau's 1922 original Herzog's Nosferatu is driven towards tragedy and visual splendour rather than the gory bloodfests of later remakes. Herzog's frequent leading man and eccentric live wire Klaus Kinski (Android Lifespan Dr Zhivago) gives a sensational performance as the eerie goblin-like Dracula.

• Nosferatu The Vampyre | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £11.05   |  Saving you £-5.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It is 1850 in the beautiful perfectly-kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His Wife Lucy begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale Wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep-sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula. The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the midst of a vampyre. What he doesn't know however is the magnitude of danger he his wife and his town are about to experience as victims of the Nosferatu.