Stars: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo

Director: Werner Herzog

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

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 mood.

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Aspect Ratio:	Full Screen
Main Language:	German
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	Interactive Menu, Film Flash, Actors Filmography, Directors Biography, Scene Selection
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1972
Release Date:	February 28, 2000
Runtime:	90 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	S V D 5014
Keywords:	God, Aguirre, Wrath, General, Drama, Der, Gottes, Zorn
Genre:	Drama