Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
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Actor: Del Negro, Helena Rojo, Klaus Kinski, Peter Berling, Ruy GuerraDirector: Werner Herzog
Brand: KINSKI/GUERRA/NEGRO/ROJO/RIVER
Cinematographer: Thomas Mauch
Producer: Werner Herzog
Writer: Werner Herzog
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Producer: Daniel Camino
Producer: Hans Prescher
Producer: Lucki Stipetic
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Movie Review: masterpiece on nihilistic megalomania in the S American jungle
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful historical film about a doomed expedition that is largely historical fact. Finding himself unable to continue, Pizarro sends Aguirre and 40 men into the jungle to search for El Dorado, the golden city. It is a strange venture, encumbered by aristocratic women in sedan chairs and primitive weapons, and seeded by the ambition of founding a new empire. Aguirre takes over by force and leads the men to nowhere, ignorant of their surroundings, renegade, and prey to supposed cannibals. It can only end in obscure death, yet he rants to the end.
What is so incredible about the film is the tone that Herzog and Kinsky achieve, a sense of chaos and impossible ambition of Caesarian proportion, even declaring themselves the founders of a country and assuming they will conquer a continent on their own. As they descend farther into the unknown, Aguirre's insanity becomes undeniable. Then comes murder, blistering rages, and steady loss of men. It is a splendidly frightening journey into one man's obsession with power and riches, the very reason that America was colonized. The men are so primitive, much closer to a medieval than to a modern or even Renaissance mentality. The actors are excellent as well.
This is about as un-Hollywood as you can get. Shot on a shoestring, with a story that ends in annihilation and lack of meaning or resolution.
Warmly recommended. It is truly a brilliant realization of a great visionary filmmaker.
Summary of Aguirre, the Wrath of God
In the mid-16th century after annihilating the incan empire gonzalo pizarro leads his army of conquistadors over the andes into the heart of the most savage environment on earth in search of the fabled city of gold el dorado. As the soldiers battle starvation indians the forces of nature & each other. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 06/03/2008 Starring: Helena Rojo Del Negro Run time: 94 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Werner HerzogQuite simply a great movie, one whose implacable portrait of ruthless greed and insane ambition becomes more pertinent every year. The astonishing Klaus Kinski plays Don Lope de Aguirre, a brutal conquistador who leads his soldiers into the Amazon jungle in an obsessive quest for gold. The story is of the expedition's relentless degeneration into brutality and despair, but the movie is much more than its plot. Director Werner Herzog strove, whenever possible, to replicate the historical circumstances of the conquistadors, and the sheer human effort of traveling through the dense mountains and valleys of Brazil in armor creates a palpable sense of struggle and derangement. This sense of reality, combined with Kinski's intensely furious performance, makes Aguirre, the Wrath of God a riveting film. Its unique emotional power is matched only by other Herzog-Kinski collaborations like Fitzcarraldo and Woyzek. --Bret Fetzer
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