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Original title: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 24, 2000
• R2: 28 Feb 2000
Budget DEM 300,000
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country West Germany, Peru, Mexico
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Other Titles
• Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1977)
• Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Cult Classic
Plot: 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. Widely considered to be Herzog's finest film, AGUIRRE, which shares much in common with Francis Ford Coppola's APOCALYPSE NOW, highlights the director's visionary approach to filmmaking. Like Coppola's film, 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
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 ...the film is difficult to sit through, but arduous viewers prepared to brave Kinski, the endless density of the scenery, the haunting score of Popul Vuh, and the general resonance of sustained negativity will get something out of this film. That thing however, will probably be a strained and displeased face, some wearily unhappy eyes and a six-inch soiled brain.  -- (horrorview.com)
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Werner Herzog
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet, What Dreams May Come, Grizzly Man |
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Popol Vuh
Nosferatu the Vampyre, Fitzcarraldo, My Best Fiend |
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