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Film · 1972 · Adventure drama
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Directed by Werner Herzog
1972
★ 7.7 editorial score
Herzog shot it for almost nothing on a real Amazon river with a lead actor he fought with constantly: Kinski's stare and a shrinking raft do everything.
“Werner Herzog’s "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"...tells the story of the doomed expedition of the conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro, who in 1560 and 1561 led a body of men into the Peruvian rain forest, lured by stories of the lost city...What Herzog sees in the story, I think, is what he finds in many of his films: Men haunted by a vision of great achievement, who commit the sin of pride by daring to reach for it, and are crushed by an implacable universe.”
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