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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: KINSKI/AMPAW/LEWGOY/BASILE/BER
EAN: 9786305972792
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305972796
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 71703
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: December 03, 1987
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: KINSKI/AMPAW/LEWGOY/BASILE/BER
Title: COBRA VERDE
Street Release Date: 10/24/2000
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Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
Amazon.com:
In their last film together, director Werner Herzog drew from actor Klaus Kinski a performance that grounds Kinski's volcanic passions with a new gravity--perhaps age was bringing Kinski down to earth. He plays Cobra Verde, a notorious Brazilian bandit, whom a plantation owner hires to keep his slaves in line. After Cobra Verde impregnates all his daughters, the owner and the authorities conspire to send the bandit to Africa to reopen the slave trade. They expect him to be killed, but through a mixture of his own cunning and the volatile politics of West Africa, Cobra Verde ends up leading an army of women to overthrow the king. Cobra Verde is disjointed, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth watching. Kinski is magnetic in scene after remarkable scene, and though the whole isn't satisfying, the parts certainly are. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  - Only pretending to be mad
This is just as great as the other Herzog/Kinski films. I saw it when it first came out, over twenty years ago, because I'd read the Chatwin book and had been hugely impressed. However, the film doesn't have that much in common with the book, and I came out rather baffled and disappointed. The imagery was still fantastic, nevertheless, and has stayed with me. Watching it again, having forgotten most of the book, I think as a film it has matured, and I was better prepared by having also just run ... Read More
Rating: - Kinski again
It is a good film, but not nearly on par with such classics as Aguirre: The Wrath Of God, Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night, nor Fitzcarraldo, and it is a film even Herzog has expressed dissatisfaction with. The film was written by Herzog, who adapted it from a novel by Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy Of Ouidah; but it's probably the least affecting screenplay of the major Herzog-Kinski films, as well as the film the two made together that has the least for Kinski to do- i.e- strut his stuff and dominate ... Read More
Rating:  - "God, in his perplexity, pretends it's his will"
At the beginning of "Cobra Verde," a defeated rancher, Francisco Manoel da Silva (played by Klaus Kinski), looks at his drought-ruined land and says "The water, the earth, and the sun turn black. God, in his perplexity, pretends it's his will." This couplet seems to be not only the theme of this final cinematic collaboration between Herzog and Kinski, but indeed the theme of most of Herzog's films. Nature, although awesome and sometimes lovable with a fierce, savage love, is never trustworthy. ... Read More
Rating: - As powerful as it is disturbing
Aesthetically, this is probably one of the most visually stunning movies ever made. Many of the scenes are unforgettable and are a true tribute to the cinematographic genius of Werner Herzog. But as always with Herzog, this movie comes with strings attached. This is as far from "Roots" as you can get. There are no heroes here, just villains and victims, and as always, Kinsky's presence in the center of it all is as intense as it is disturbing. Even the contribution of some African tribe leaders to ... Read More
Rating: - "I can not hear what you are saying, for the thunder that you are."
The last and least of his volatile collaborations with Werner Herzog, Cobra Verde is possibly the one movie where Klaus Kinski isn't the maddest person on screen - he's out-madded by not one but two African kings who make him look a model of logic and reason: when even Werner Herzog describes one actor as a "very odd man," you'd better believe it. After a hypnotic opening the first third is sluggish at best, but once Kinski's South American barefoot bandit ("I don't trust shoes") reaches Africa to ... Read More
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