Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Werner Herzog

Guionista:

Werner Herzog (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 abril 1977 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Biografía | Drama | Historia

Frase comercial:

On this river, God never finished his creation.

Plot:

In in 16th century, the ruthless and insane Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

Plot Keywords:

Expedition | Spanish | River | Power | Amazon River

Premios:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The Women

Reparto

Klaus Kinski	...	Don Lope de Aguirre
Helena Rojo	...	Inez
Del Negro	...	Brother Gaspar de Carvajal
Ruy Guerra	...	Don Pedro de Ursua
Peter Berling	...	Don Fernando de Guzman
Cecilia Rivera	...	Flores
Daniel Ades	...	Perucho (as Dan Ades)
Edward Roland	...	Okello
Alejandro Chavez
Armando Polanah	...	Armando
Daniel Farfán
Julio E. Martínez
Alejandro Repulles	...	Gonzalo Pizarro
Indianern der Kooperative Lauramarca
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Justo González	...	González
Antonio Marquez

También conocida como:

Aguirre, Wrath of God (UK)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (USA)
Aguirre, la cólera de dios (Spain) [es]
Aguirre: la ira de Dios (Chile) [es]

Duración:

93 min

País:

Alemania Occidental | Peru | Mexico

Idioma:

Alemán | Inglés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

West Germany:12 | South Korea:15 | South Korea:12 (2002) | Argentina:18 | Australia:M (cable rating) | Australia:PG (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1991)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Aguaruna Lands, Peru

Compañía:

Hessischer Rundfunk (HR)

Trivialidades:

This was the first Werner Herzog film with Klaus Kinski. It was the start of an extremely stormy, and sometimes violent, professional relationship that lasted 15 years,

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: In one shot where the camera moves around the rafts, you can see the crew's living arrangements (a bunch of rafts with huts on them) near the bank of the river.

Citas:

Don Lope de Aguirre: Perucho, don't you think the cannon might be a little bit rusty?
Perucho: It might.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Banda de Sonido:

Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes (Lacrime Di Re)

The Women

This is an amazing experience, becoming more so the further we get from it. When I see 'Apocalypse Now, or even 'Mosquito Coast' I see this. In fact whenever I see both an actor AND a director/writer risking all in a coordinated way, I see this. And when I see a combination of fictional documentary and highly stylized poses, a memory of this glistens.

I highly suggest a periodic refresh-viewing of this film on a big screen, followed of course by 'Fizcarraldo.' with some life-affirming experience in between. In that film, the jungle and river is engaged, animate: here it forms an organic container for fantasies. This is one of the most visual film experiences you will have, but so much of what you take away is what is not seen. Superficially, it is a depiction of madness in a context of religious colonialism, rank exploitation.

But the complexities abound, and the one that captured me this time around was the women. The first scene is the most promising in all filmdom. In addition to its beauty, we get it all in promises; and among the promises is the women. Two senior-level military men are allowed to bring females on an expedition worthy of Bird or Lewis and Clark - this at extreme expense. The obvious reason for the women is as breeders to populate the New Jerusalem of riches and religious conquest.

One woman we understand, an adult mistress to a noble soul. We learn more about her than anyone else save the 'Negro.' She is played by an accomplished actress, and acts. The other woman is a fifteen year old. A daughter, already aware of a forthcoming incestuous dynasty and resigned to a life with her deformed father in a magical future to be obtained only by passing through a barrier of tests. She, like the local Indians, is played by a non-actress, in fact a girl plucked out of a Peruvian high school nearly at random.

The less she does, the more transcendent her presence. We don't see her die, but as she knows she is dying she looks at her father as if to transfer all her energy to the space immediately surrounding him. That space does become filled with fantastic life on the raft and all that surrounds it, creating the sequence that ends the film. That scene perfectly compliments the first, where the people are the river bringing their seed to the promised land. In the last, the seed is released and the river itself carries the offspring of the imagination to the treetops.

Ted's Evaluation -- 4 of 4: Every visually literate person should experience this.