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Werner Herzog - what members say


  • Julien Donkey Boy
  • Julien Donkey Boy review by Calvin Fagan from Nottingham
    Rated - 5 stars a darkly comic/tragic wonder 23 October 2007
    ... dangerous pregnant ice skating have an unbearable tension to them. Director Werner Herzog, a clear influence on Harmony Korine, is also a disturbing and powerful presenc...  
  • La Donna Del Lago - Rossini
  • La Donna Del Lago - Rossini review by Thomas Savage from London, England
    Rated - 3 stars Little-known Rossini, but pretty good 24 May 2006
    ... Werner Herzog's La Scala production of Rossini's little-performed piece is hampered by a very poor libretto (if you haven't read Scott's poem you might well wonder what's ...  
  • Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet / The Cello
  • Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet / The Cello review by Ibiza Simon from Darlo, England
    Rated - 4 stars Kaurismaki, Herzog, Jarmusch, Wenders. 2 October 2005
    ...Aki Kaurismaki, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders. All my favourite directors on one DVD, absolutly brilliant. This DVD could have been made especially for me. Whoeve...  

Werner Herzog - filmography


  • Rescue Dawn on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Steve Zahn,  Jeremy Davies
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: 12
    Incomparable director Werner Herzog takes another strange turn in his eclectic career with RESCUE DAWN--a major studio picture starring Christian Bale (BATMAN BEGINS). The film is an adaptation of Herzog's 1997 documentary LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY, which focused on Dieter Dengler, a pilot who was ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 66% from 12,952 members
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  • Wheel Of Time on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Dalai Lama
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: Ex
    Wheel of Time is acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo) gorgeously photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India. Herzog magically captures the lengthy pilgrimage (which for some, is over 3,000 miles), the monk's creation of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 70% from 175 members
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  • Grizzly Man on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Timothy Treadwell
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: 15
    Werner Herzog's persistent inquiry into the motivations of human obsession focuses this time on the self-proclaimed kind warrior Timothy Treadwell. A passionate wildlife preservationist and grizzly bear devotee, Treadwell lived unarmed among the grizzlies in a remote section of Alaska for 13 years, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 66% from 3,749 members
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  • Invincible (2001)
    Starring: Tim Roth,  Jouko Ahola,  Anna Gourari
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: TBC
    The film is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith's son from Poland who becomes a sensation in Weimar, Berlin as a mythical strongman. His employer Hanussen dreams of establishing an all-powerful Ministry of the Occult in Hitler's government. Yet as Hitler's hold on power ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 50% from 19 members
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  • Julien Donkey Boy on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Chloe Sevigny,  Ewen Bremner,  Joyce Korine
    Director: Harmony Korine
    Certificate: 15
    Flashing a mouthful of fake gold teeth, Julien (Ewen Bremner) wanders the streets of New York City, mumbling nonsensical syllables to himself. He tries to avoid the abuse of his sadistic drunken gas-mask-wearing father (German director Werner Herzog). He cracks a young boy's head open with a rock. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 55% from 483 members
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  • Little Dieter Needs to Fly on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Dieter Dengler
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: Ex
    "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" is a documentary about Dieter Dengler, a German who grew up with a passion for flight and emigrated to the U.S. to join the navy and become a pilot during the Vietnam War. Dieter was shot down, captured and tortured before becoming one of the few American prisoners to ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.0 78% from 368 members
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  • Gesualdo - Death For Five Voices on DVD (1995)
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: Ex
    One of the masters of the New German Cinema, Werner Herzog is known for his love of Wagnerian dramatics and epic struggles. His television documentary, GESUALDO, tells the story of the composer Carlo Gesualdo. The Italian composer, who lived during the Renaissance, is considered by many to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 65% from 55 members
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  • Scream Of Stone on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Brad Dourif,  Donald Sutherland,  Mathilda May
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: 15
    Two experienced climbers, Roccia and Martin, are rivals who challenge each other to climb one of the most difficult mountains in the world, Cerre Torre in Argentina's Patagonia. This dangerous challenge was sparked by the death of a mutual friend, and animosity over Martin stealing Roccia's ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 176 members
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  • Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
    Starring: Bruce Spence,  Wandjuk Marika,  Roy Marika
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: TBC
    "Where the Green Ants Dream" is the incredible story of an Aboriginal tribe's struggle to save their sacred grounds from encroaching civilization. They believe that man's so-called reality is no more than the dream of a strange insect indigenous to the Australian continent.
    Rate this: 3.0 61% from 6 members
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  • Signs of Life (1968)
    Starring: Peter Brogle,  Wolfgang Reichmann,  Athina Zacharopoulou
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: TBC
    On Crete, a wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet city of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There's little to do: Becker, a classicist, translates ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 60% from 3 members
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  • Land of Silence and Darkness
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: Ex
    Werner Herzog trains his camera on documentary subject Fini Straubinger in this exploratory look at her life as a kind hearted woman who is both deaf and blind. Straubinger has dedicated a large portion of her life caring for those who are similarly afflicted, and Herzog explicitly details both her ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 58% from 7 members
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  • The White Diamond
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: TBC
    Werner Herzog once again turns his eye on the beautiful and dangerous wilds of the Amazon in this documentary. Dr. Graham Dorrington is a scientist who specializes in designing experimental aircraft, and in 1992 he invented a unique man-powered airship intended to travel into the Amazon canopy of ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.0 75% from 6 members
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Werner Herzog - downloads


  • Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet for Download (2003)
    Director: Kaige Chen,  Victor Erice,  Werner Herzog
    Certificate: 15
    Rent from: £2.99
    Unique in the history of cinema about the most universal of all subjects: Time. Each of the directors has been given exactly ten minutes on the screen for their vision. With complete creative freedom, the directors bring their own unique interpretation of ‘time ’ to the screen. Using the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 64% from 5 members
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  • Ten Thousand Years Older for Download
    Director: Werner Herzog
    Certificate: 15
    Rent from: £0.99
    In Ten Thousand Years Older, Herzog revisits a Brazilian rainforest tribe first introduced to the modern world in 1981, whose lifestyle and culture have subsequently been pushed forward ten thousand years with huge repercussions for the elder and younger members of the tribe.
    Rate this: 3.5 63% from 6 members
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Werner Herzog facts

5 most recent films


Encounters at the End of the World - 4.0 stars
Wagner - Lohengrin - Schneider - 3.5 stars
Rescue Dawn - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Rescue Dawn - 3.5 stars
The Wild Blue Yonder - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


Little Dieter Needs to Fly - 4.0 stars
Werner Herzog Box Set 1 - 3.5 stars
Werner Herzog Box Set 2 - 3.5 stars
Wheel Of Time - 3.5 stars
Rescue Dawn - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Invincible - 2.5 stars
Land of Silence and Darkness - 3.0 stars
Incident at Loch Ness - 3.0 stars
Where the Green Ants Dream - 3.0 stars
Signs of Life - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


werner herzog (narr.) - 2 times - show films
Jeremy Davies - 2 times - show films
Josef Bierbichler - 2 times - show films
Christian Bale - 2 times - show films
Eva Mattes - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Aki Kaurismaki - 1 times - show films
Zak Penn - 1 times - show films
Jim Ja - 1 times - show films
Harmony Korine - 1 times - show films
Victor Erice - 1 times - show films