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- 2023
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 42 m
- 2023
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 42 m
Summary No one can tell a story like Werner Herzog. But in this portrait of the beloved storyteller / filmmaker, we also hear from some of the people who've worked with him during his long career.
Directed By: Thomas von Steinaecker
Written By: Thomas von Steinaecker
- 2023
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 42 m
- 2023
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 42 m
Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer
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Summary No one can tell a story like Werner Herzog. But in this portrait of the beloved storyteller / filmmaker, we also hear from some of the people who've worked with him during his long career.
Directed By: Thomas von Steinaecker
Written By: Thomas von Steinaecker
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
70
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Thomas von Steinaecker’s documentary, Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer, offers an enjoyable, if fairly light portrait of the German filmmaker and survey of his 60-plus year career.
Interviewees tie themselves in knots of gushing superlatives, but the real insights come from the man himself.
Calling a film-maker a “dreamer” sounds hackneyed, but it does justice to his idealism. Perhaps no other description will do.
These stories are already the stuff of cinematic legend, but that doesn’t make their retelling any less compelling.
The movie also provides a smart primer on the “New German Cinema” Herzog helped bring into being during the 1960s.
A watchable, if by-the-book, documentary. It’s only a pity that the conventional storytelling hems in such a deeply unconventional director.
Some people might enjoy a solitary clip from a Henry Rollins interview, as well as occasional anecdotes from “Rescue Dawn” star Christian Bale (another Batman!). Others might wonder why we’re watching a chaotic docu-salute to Herzog when we could be watching a Herzog movie instead.
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Production Company
3B-Produktion,
Real Fiction Filmverleih,
Spring Films
Release Date Dec 5, 2023
Duration 1 h 42 m
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Awards
Calgary International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
