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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: KINSKI/GUERRA/NEGRO/ROJO/RIVER
EAN: 9786305972761
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6305972761
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 10890
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: April 03, 1977
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Kinski stars as the mad \''Aguirre\'' who sets out with his daughter and a band of Pizarro's conquistadores down the Amazon in search of El Dorado.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: KINSKI/GUERRA/NEGRO/ROJO/RIVER
Title: AGUIRRE-WRATH OF GOD
Street Release Date: 10/24/2000
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Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
Amazon.com:
Quite simply a great movie, one whose implacable portrait of ruthless greed and insane ambition becomes more pertinent every year. The astonishing Klaus Kinski plays Don Lope de Aguirre, a brutal conquistador who leads his soldiers into the Amazon jungle in an obsessive quest for gold. The story is of the expedition's relentless degeneration into brutality and despair, but the movie is much more than its plot. Director Werner Herzog strove, whenever possible, to replicate the historical circumstances of the conquistadors, and the sheer human effort of traveling through the dense mountains and valleys of Brazil in armor creates a palpable sense of struggle and derangement. This sense of reality, combined with Kinski's intensely furious performance, makes Aguirre, the Wrath of God a riveting film. Its unique emotional power is matched only by other Herzog-Kinski collaborations like Fitzcarraldo and Woyzek. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  - What a letdown.
After reading about this "great, classic, etc" movie for years, I finally laid hands on a copy and viewed it. This is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. It almost seemed like a joke at times. I do love the arthouse movies, film noir, classics, and other non-mainstream cinema, but I honestly do not get the hype over this waste of time. Avoid it.
Rating:  - Poetical Fanaticism
This was one of a handful of German films that made one think Western Civilization had a chance. I remember well seeing this for the first time back during my college days. We had all been through the New Wave and had grown a bit weary of the French "A Man and A Woman" school of romantic adventurers. This was what we've been waiting for. Serious, operatic, masculine, deep. One felt that German film was making a comeback since the glory days of the 1920s with early Fritz Lang and films like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." The masterpiece of mood and implied meanings can be appreciated on so many levels. It is above all an artfully made movie, with beautiful cinematography and a haunting sound track. Kinski is memorably, although one might say he has little to do or say. It is his posture and his silence that play so large here. What a dark, brooding piece. It has been some thirty years since I last saw this marvel but it is not diminished in any way.
Rating: - Masterpiece
Werner Herzog may just be the best film director of the last forty years. Period. And I mean worldwide. While some directors of film rely primarily on precision- think Alfred Hitchcock, intellect- think Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick, visual poesy-think Terrence Malick, or visceral reaction- think Akira Kurosawa, there is no other major filmmaker that I can think of who combines all of these things so skillfully, as well as having a mastery of music, outside of Herzog. From musical scoring to narrative pacing to visual imagery, he reigns supreme. Before watching his 1972 masterpiece, Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes), for the first time, all I had seen of Herzog were some of his documentary style films and Fitzcarraldo. This was enough to intrigue me to explore his corpus more fully, and I'm glad I did, for there's a reason this film made him a `name' on par with his contemporary German directors, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders.
Aguirre: The Wrath Of God is a film that combines the best elements of such diverse great films as Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Apocalypse Now, although it is a much more visceral work than any of those films, and is topped off by one of the truly great screen performances of all time, with Klaus Kinski as the titular lead, Don Lope de Aguirre, a cripple who may also be a hunchback- whose outer deformities seem to have scarred him internally, as well. While there are numerous other supporting characters that turn in fine performances, ... Read More
Rating: - A true masterpiece
The sheer genius and madness of actor Klaus Kinski are brought to their full potential in support of this tailor-made, abysmal story. Spanish Conquistadors venture in the Amazon in search of gold. But their quest turns out to be more internal than material, with a desperate questioning about power, care, hope, civilization, pragmatism in the face of emptiness in a pristine world. Absolutely breathtaking acting and scenery. A violent, somber, desperate, ruthless but, overall, very human movie.
Rating: - "I am the great traitor!"
So shouts Klaus Kinski's Aguirre (a play on the French word for "war"?) at one point in this beautiful but intensely disturbing film. The story is simple and familiar: European conquistadores rampage through the "New World" in search of glory, power, and wealth, and are eventually destroyed by the very world they seek to subdue.
In Herzog's hands, however, this familiar tale is told with all the poignancy it deserves. The mountains and jungles that surround the conquistadores create a sense of relentless isolation and loneliness--surely exactly what Joseph Conrad wanted to convey in "Heart of Darkness." The foolish pride of greedy men is expressed in the absurd conceit of making one of the band the emperor of the New World, and dressing him in a tattered purple blouse (he eventually dies of diarrhea, a fitting end). The barbarism of the conquistadores becomes fully revealed in the primeval jungle, where inhibitions drop away one by one. At one point, the band runs across the remains of a cannibal village, but it's clear that Herzog wants viewers to ask themselves who the real cannibals are. Toward film's end, everyone is dead save Aquirre, the evil genius of the band, and he's mad and doomed, captaining a tattered raft crawling with jungle monkeys and raving that he will marry his (dead) daughter and create a New World dynasty that will last forever. We, the viewers, of course know better. The forest will silently close over him, and it will be as if he never existed.
The interesting ... Read More
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