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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305972785
Format: Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 6305972788
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 32310
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: April 03, 1977
Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Into the Wild
"Aguirre,the Wrath of God" is a cinematic masterpiece. Masterfully directed by Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski is perfect as the homicidal,power-hungry Lope de Aguirre. The eerie music of Popol Vuh provides the eerie atmosphere. Despite being set in the vast Amazon rainforest, there is a sense of claustrophobia as Aguirre destroys others and then himself.
"Aguirre" opens with a majestic shot of the Andes as one of Pizarro's expeditions descends. Pizarro designates Don Pedro de Ursua to lead ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... 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.
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