Aguirre, Wrath of God (1973)
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
Country: GER
Technical: col 95m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra
Synopsis:
After Pizarro's conquest of Peru, one of his lieutenants leads an expedition downriver from the Andes to locate the legendary city of El Dorado. Unfortunately it is a hoax engineered by the Indians and they are lying in wait for him.
Review:
Unforgettable, almost documentary account of an episode that may well have happened - a survivor is posited, whose account this is - and which has as its central fascination an intense portrayal of madness, not all of it feigned apparently, by its star. There are surreal touches too: a ship on a treetop; 'I see longer arrows are in fashion,' observes a soldier just pierced by one, before he dies. The director returned Kinski to similar terrain in Fitzcarraldo a decade later.
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
Country: GER
Technical: col 95m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra
Synopsis:
After Pizarro's conquest of Peru, one of his lieutenants leads an expedition downriver from the Andes to locate the legendary city of El Dorado. Unfortunately it is a hoax engineered by the Indians and they are lying in wait for him.
Review:
Unforgettable, almost documentary account of an episode that may well have happened - a survivor is posited, whose account this is - and which has as its central fascination an intense portrayal of madness, not all of it feigned apparently, by its star. There are surreal touches too: a ship on a treetop; 'I see longer arrows are in fashion,' observes a soldier just pierced by one, before he dies. The director returned Kinski to similar terrain in Fitzcarraldo a decade later.
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
Country: GER
Technical: col 95m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra
Synopsis:
After Pizarro's conquest of Peru, one of his lieutenants leads an expedition downriver from the Andes to locate the legendary city of El Dorado. Unfortunately it is a hoax engineered by the Indians and they are lying in wait for him.
Review:
Unforgettable, almost documentary account of an episode that may well have happened - a survivor is posited, whose account this is - and which has as its central fascination an intense portrayal of madness, not all of it feigned apparently, by its star. There are surreal touches too: a ship on a treetop; 'I see longer arrows are in fashion,' observes a soldier just pierced by one, before he dies. The director returned Kinski to similar terrain in Fitzcarraldo a decade later.