Aguirre, The Wrath Of God - A German Film By Werner Herzog: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF...

A tale of search for gold. The people who truly hit gold were the audiences of this film - here's arguably the Herzog's most famous film.

The Hyderabad Film Club is organising a 5-day retrospective of Werner Herzog films, from 5th to 10th June, at the Sarathi Studios in Ameerpet. Today, the second day, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God will be screened at 6:30pm.

Aguirre, The Wrath of God is an independent 1972 German film written and directed by Werner Herzog. Klaus Kinski stars in the title role. Arguably the director's most famous film, it was given an extensive arthouse theatrical release in the United States in 1977.

The story follows the travels of Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South America in search of a lost city of gold (El Dorado). The film is in some ways similar to Joseph Conrad's 1902 novella Heart Of Darkness, particularly in its basic narrative structure (a river voyage into the jungle), its association of the depths of the jungle with insanity, and its emphasis on the absurdity of colonialism.

Several critics have noted that Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now, a movie based explicitly (but loosely) on the Conrad novella, was apparently influenced by Aguirre too, as it contains seemingly deliberate visual "quotations" of Herzog's film.

Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetic on September 5, 1942) is a critically and internationally acclaimed German film director, screenwriter, actor and opera director. He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schl