Michael Verhoeven is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Bavarian Film Awards next year according to the organisers.

Verhoeven is a very prolific and political filmmaker, having made such films as The White Rose, which inspired the equally strong and Oscar nominated Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (Filmstalker review).

The story from Reuters has a little more on his career:

"My Mother's Courage" (1995) is the true story of how one woman escaped the Nazis' deportation of 4,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in 1944. And 1990's "Nasty Girl," which won a Berlin Silver Bear and a U.K. Bafta award for best foreign-language film, follows a German high school student who uncovers her town's secret collaboration with the Nazis during the war. Verhoeven's latest film, the documentary "The Unknown Soldier," is an examination of the German army's involvement in the Holocaust.

I've only seen the Sophie Scholl film, but I really am keen to see some of his other work and they're waiting in the rental queue. Who has seen them? Are they as influencial and strong as the award suggests?