Aguirre, The Wrath of God



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Not just a great movie but an essential one. A landmark! - Village Voice

One of the great haunting visions of the cinema - Roger Ebert

Astoundingly beautiful and savage - Time Out New York

Based on the journals of Brother Gaspar de Carvajal, AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD is director Werner Herzog's hallucinatory tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold, in 16th-century Peru. When the travellers reach an impasse, a scouting party is assembled to search for any traces of the mythical empire. As they attempt to forge their way through the dense jungle, more and more of the party falls ill while their ruthless leader, Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), grows increasingly insane. Accounts of AGUIRRE's shooting are laced with legendary incidents, such as the time Herzog reportedly held a gun to Kinski's head to get him to finish a scene. Whatever transpired between Herzog and Kinski, it made for astonishing cinema, as evidenced by the actor's haunting performance and the entire film's powerfully hypnotic mood. (1972, 100m, in German with subtitles)

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Links


Chicago Reader review
Roger Ebert's Great Movies review
Werner Herzog website
Cineaste: Interview About Klaus Kinski
Senses of Cinema Herzog article
Herzog Wikipedia entry