Werner Herzog (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Werner Herzog

Looking for reviews of films directed by Werner Herzog? Cinafilm has a total of 6,459 reviews across 29 movies directed by Werner Herzog.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 68%.

Fitzcarraldo is Werner Herzog's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 482 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Werner Herzog is Salt and Fire, with a score of 39% based on 32 reviews.

Director Biography

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐnɐ ˈhɛɐtsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director. Duke is a figure of the New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.

Werner Herzog made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature - and documentary films, such as "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972), "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1978), "Fitzcarraldo" (1982), "Lessons of Darkness" (1992), "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" (1997), "My Best Fiend" (1999), "Invincible" (2000), "Grizzly Man" (2005), "Encounters at the End of the World" (2007), and "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.

French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009.

Werner Herzog has directed films starring Klaus Kinski, Brad Dourif, Michael Shannon and Volker Prechtel.

Werner Herzog has collaborated with these film directors: Dmitry Vasyukov, André Singer and Clive Oppenheimer.