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
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: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Movie Review: "I am the great traitor!"
Summary: 5 Stars
So shouts Klaus Kinski's Aguirre (a play on the French word for "war"?) at one point in this beautiful but intensely disturbing film. The story is simple and familiar: European conquistadores rampage through the "New World" in search of glory, power, and wealth, and are eventually destroyed by the very world they seek to subdue.
In Herzog's hands, however, this familiar tale is told with all the poignancy it deserves. The mountains and jungles that surround the conquistadores create a sense of relentless isolation and loneliness--surely exactly what Joseph Conrad wanted to convey in "Heart of Darkness." The foolish pride of greedy men is expressed in the absurd conceit of making one of the band the emperor of the New World, and dressing him in a tattered purple blouse (he eventually dies of diarrhea, a fitting end). The barbarism of the conquistadores becomes fully revealed in the primeval jungle, where inhibitions drop away one by one. At one point, the band runs across the remains of a cannibal village, but it's clear that Herzog wants viewers to ask themselves who the real cannibals are. Toward film's end, everyone is dead save Aquirre, the evil genius of the band, and he's mad and doomed, captaining a tattered raft crawling with jungle monkeys and raving that he will marry his (dead) daughter and create a New World dynasty that will last forever. We, the viewers, of course know better. The forest will silently close over him, and it will be as if he never existed.
The interesting question raised by the film is just what Aguirre (and by implication, most of the rest of us) is a "great traitor" to. Most obviously the crown he vowed to serve, but more deeply to--what? Human dignity? Virtue? Ideals? Reason? God? This is the pat answer, but Herzog seems not to rest content with it. After all, the jungle closes in on the virtuous as well as the villainous, destroying each indiscriminately.
One of the best films ever made.
Summary of Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Quite 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 FetzerKinski stars as the mad \""Aguirre\"" who sets out with his daughter and a band of Pizarro's conquistadores down the Amazon in search of El Dorado.
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Artist: KINSKI/GUERRA/NEGRO/ROJO/RIVER
Title: AGUIRRE-WRATH OF GOD
Street Release Date: 10/24/2000
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