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The most famed and well-regarded collaboration between New German Cinema director Werner Herzog and his frequent leading man, Klaus Kinski, this epic historical drama was legendary for the arduousness of its on-location filming and the convincing zealous obsession employed by Kinski in playing the title role. Exhausted and near to admitting failure in its quest for riches, the 1650-51 expedition of Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro (Alejandro Repulles) bogs down in the impenetrable jungles of
Dec 29, 1972 Wide
Oct 24, 2000
New Yorker Films
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Aguirre, Wrath of God is not just a great movie but an essential one.
This is a splendid and haunting work.
One of the great haunting visions of the cinema.
A visionary work, Aguirre is one of Herzog's greatest achievements.
An essential hallucination, subsequently mined by Coppola, Weir and Malick but unsurpassed in its vision of the withering yet liberating madness beneath our armor
This 1972 German film eschews narrative for hallucinatory images and long takes that plunge you into the whirlpool of the main character's madness. It's less storytelling than a visually disturbing fever dream.
Potheads who watch this will probably check their stash the next morning to see if any of it's gone.
A seminal film without which we almost cerainly would not have with us either Apocalypse Now or much of the ouevre of Terence Malick.
A saga of adventurers driven headlong into annihilation by their own hubris and desire for immortality.
One of the best films ever made.
Takes us into a visually stunning and surreal Heart of Darkness adventure.
There is a lingering voodoo in the movie that never lets you forget the folly of man's puny sins against a dark universal order of which insanity, sickness, and death are the inevitable symptoms.
[A]n anti-epic about European conquest that, while based in part on ... an ill-fated historical expedition, is as macabre as a Poe story.
It's a testament to the genius of Aguirre: The Wrath of God that its genesis has spawned its own creation mythology.
Extraordinary adventure in the Andean jungles
Deep in South American jungle there's something afoot. A splinter group from Pizzaro's expedition is sent to find El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. This group is steeped in Christianity as they spread it throughout the new land and the natives that inhabit it. It's like a trade in a way: We'll give you Christ if
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