swarms of wild monkeys commandeering Aguirre’s vessel. Did Herzog really mean to call his magnum opus the raft of God, and either way, whose wrath is it really? When Kinski rages, God flees the ...

“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wrath of God ... footed man by the name of Lope de Aguirre. Little did his companions ...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of ...

Launching the season is 1972’s Aguirre: The Wrath Of God, the first of five films Herzog made with Klaus Kinski – and the story if it’s arduous, five-week shoot in the Amazon, with director ...

The iconic director of 'Fitzcarraldo, 'Grizzly Man,' and 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' will be honored at the 82nd Venice festival in August. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Subscribe for ...

With masterpieces like Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, and Grizzly Man, Herzog is a filmmaker who enjoys delving into themes of obsession, isolation, and man against nature. His first ...

The director of “Fitzcarraldo” and “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” also claimed that humanity was “starving for new images,” a challenge many filmmakers have taken to heart. I cannot say ...

The Venice Film Festival will honor iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog — whose body of work comprises “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo” and Nosferatu the Vampyre ...