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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

Film still from AGUIRRE: Klaus Kinski as Aguirre in war uniform.
© Werner Herzog Film / Deutsche Kinemathek

Sat 11.02.
20:00

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • FRG / 1972
    95 min. / 35 mm / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    Klaus Kinki, Ruy Guerra

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

Herzog’s first trip into the jungle was hardly uncontroversial. On location, he stages the insane enterprise of a Spanish conquistador, who is searching for the legendary Eldorado and plans to found a new ideal state complete with a new human gender. A conqueror rather than an adventurer, he pursues his goal ruthlessly and lawlessly, which ends in failure as he drifts alone on the river with a troop of monkeys towards destruction. Imperialism and hubris, contempt for humanity and ignorance are the themes, with the greatest possible authenticity the goal. It was Herzog’s first collaboration with Klaus Kinski, the ideal casting for an obsessive of this kind.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media