Aguirre, Wrath of God

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

Kinski at his most memorably manic in Herzog’s classic about Spanish conquistadores all at sea in the Amazon jungle.

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • With

    Klaus Kinski, Cecilia Rivera, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling

  • West Germany 1972. 94min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

Herzog’s extraordinary film about Spanish conquistadors on a doomed quest for El Dorado is not only a stirring study of the clash between arrogant ‘civilisation’ and the natural obstacles of the Amazonian jungle and its inhabitants, but a vivid document of the challenges inevitable in its own making. Kinski is superb as the increasingly deluded megalomaniac Aguirre, while the images are often breathtakingly primal and mysterious.

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