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Dramatic movie which follows a band of Spanish conquistadors in their search for gold in the Amazon.

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ProducerWerner Herzog

EAN5035673011690

eBay Product ID (ePID)14048555571

Product Key Features

ActorKlaus Kinski, Helena Rojo

Film/TV TitleAguirre, Wrath of God

DirectorWerner Herzog

LanguageGerman

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time91 Mins

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2014

FeaturesSteelbook, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

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Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureGermany

ReviewsNew York Times - ...Absolutely stunning....A splendid and haunting work..., Sight and Sound - ...The clarity and truth of [Herzog's] method, and the value of his tension between rationality and its opposite, are summarised to perfection...

Additional InformationBased 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.<BR>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 mood.

ScreenwriterWerner Herzog

FeaturedDel Negro, Ruy Guerra

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleAguirre, Wrath Of God

Director of PhotographyThomas Mauch

Consumer AdviceContains moderate violence