Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Essential Viewing

West Germany

Feature Film

Original Title: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

Writer/Director: Werner Herzog

Cinematographer: Thomas Mauch

Composer: Popol Vuh

Cast: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera, Dan Ades, Edward Roland

A group of Spanish explorers traverse the jungles and rivers of South America in search of fame, fortune, and El Dorado, stubbornly and bloodily making no concessions to rationality nor native pressures, in Herzog’s hallucinatory examination of colonial madness and greed, which boasts a cracking performance from Kinski. Iain.Stott