| | Aguirre, The Wrath Of God DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Action DVDs, Action/Adventure Movies, Foreign Films Videos, Adventure, Recommended, Essential Cinema, Native American, Jungle, German, Renaissance | | Starring | Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo | | Director | Werner Herzog | | Director of Photography | Thomas Mauch | | Featured | Ruy Guerra, Del Negro | | Producer | Werner Herzog | | Screenwriter | Werner Herzog |
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Behind The Scenes AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD is the magnificent story of a Spanish conquistador who is obsessed with the idea of conquering the South American continent and locating the fabled city of El Dorado. This is arguably director Werner Herzog's best film. 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. Theatrical Release: April 3, 1977 (US)
December 29, 1972 (Cologne, Germany).
Shot on location in Peru between January and February 1972.
Director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski would work together on many occasions, developing a tempestuous creative partnership that eventually became the subject of Herzog's documentary on Kinski, entitled MY BEST FIEND.
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God Reviews: "...The clarity and truth of [Herzog's] method, and the value of his tension between rationality and its opposite, are summarised to perfection..."
-- Tony Rayns, Sight and Sound "...Absolutely stunning....A splendid and haunting work..."
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times "...Rarely has German romanticism been so fully realised on screen..."
-- Paul Poland, Total Film "...Werner Herzog's AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD is one of the great haunting visions of the cinema..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...It's hard to imagine a more hallucinatory movie than AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...Herzog's epic about a power-drunk Spanish conquistador is like a Teutonic APOCALYPSE NOW..."
-- Entertainment Weekly Staff, Entertainment Weekly Aguirre, The Wrath Of God | List Price | $19.97 (You save $7.12) | | Studio | Anchor Bay | | Orig Year | 1973 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  3926  | | CD Universe Part number | 1126178 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 03, 2008 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes | | Running Time | 94 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Dolby Noise Reduction; Digitally Processed; Surround Sound; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound |
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God Movie Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)   Mersmerizing and Hyptnotic
An awesome portrayal of greed, suffering, and madness. I seen Herzog at the Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival a few years back after the screening of Invincible. Ebert interviewed him in front of the crowd. He talked about this movie a bit. He has made many movies that took pain to make. He has put more pain into film making than Francis Coppola (Apocalypse Now) could even fathom.
Submitted by Joseph (Illinois)
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good entertainment
Klause Kinski at his best
Submitted by bmccabe28 (sydney, nova scotia, canada) 
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In this first collaboration with German director, Werner Herzog in 1971, Kinski convinces with his destinctive portrayal of Aguirre - The Wrath of God. Fortunately, next to the famous various temper explosions and tantrums while shooting, the crew managed to survive the dangerous and raging Klaus Kinski and finally finished the movie. It is a true masterpiece and should not be missing in any Kinski fan collection.
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My expectations were high... they were disappointed. This film is more interesting as an evolutionary item in the "art" category. Most of its failure are due to the low budget elements. It remains an curious stop for viewers looking for an oddity of an ersatz tragedy in the classic sense.
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