Aguirre, the Wrath of God (BFI Film Classics)

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) is and in all probability all the time will be Werner Herzog’s most important film. Appearing in 1972, Aguirre put Herzog on the map of world cinema. But the film’s importance also derives from the young German director’s tense, in the back of-the-scenes relationship with actor Klaus Kinski. Did Herzog actually direct him at gunpoint? Did they plot each and every other’s murder? The legends begin here …

In this groundbreaking book, Eric Ames reconstructs the film as an experiment in visualising the past from the point of view of the current. Aguirre isn’t a history film in the narrow sense, but it does engage a specific episode in the conquest of the New World, and it explores that history in relation to vision. Interweaving close analysis with extensive archival research, Ames explores Aguirre as a seminal film about the madness and hopelessness of Western striving. As well as, as an appendix, he offers for the first time a complete translation of an infamous, secretly recorded argument between Herzog and Kinski on the set.

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