Werner Herzog
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
(Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
- Production Year 1972
- color / Durationcolor / 93 min.
- IN Number IN 1129
Herzog depicts colossal failure in this delusional legend of conquest about a Spanish expedition that fights its way through the jungle of Peru in 1560. In search of the legendary golden city of El Dorado, doom draws ever closer the further the troop advances.
The 16th century in the Peruvian Andes: An expedition of Spanish conquistadores is in search of El Dorado, the legendary golden realm of the Incas. The power-hungry officer Aguirre usurps command of an advance party that is to sail down the Amazon on rafts and explore the region. Aguirre declares the Spanish king deposed and a nobleman travelling with him “Emperor of El Dorado.” He then pushes further into the country with the rafts in the midst of a hostile environment, threatened by the poison arrows of the Indigenous people, hunger, exhaustion, disease and mutiny. The group becomes ever more decimated. In the end, we see Aguirre succumbing to madness on a raft covered in corpses drifting down the Amazon.
(Courtesy of Filmportal)
Aguirre’s dream of El Dorado, of power and greatness, is the dream of making history to defy fate. It is a visually powerful adventure that also brought great international recognition to New German Cinema. At the same time, AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD is the first collaboration between Werner Herzog and the eccentric Klaus Kinski. Their close relationship has always been marked by great ambivalence and produced further films such as NOSFERATU (1979) and FITZCARRALDO (1982).
(28.07.2022)
- Production Country
- Germany (DE)
- Production Period
- 1972
- Production Year
- 1972
- color
- color
- Aspect Ratio
- 1:1,66
- Duration
- Feature-Length Film (61+ Min.)
- Type
- Feature Film
- Genre
- Drama, Biography / Portrait, Action, History Film
- Topic
- Colonialism, Violence, Religion
- Scope of Rights
- Nichtexklusive nichtkommerzielle öffentliche Aufführung (nonexclusive, noncommercial public screening),Keine TV-Rechte (no TV rights)
- Notes to the Licence
- Hinweis: Vorführungen der Werner Herzog Filme außerhalb der Goethe-Institute im Ausland, z.B. in herkömmlichen Kinos, müssen im Vorfeld mit der Werner Herzog Stiftung abgesprochen werden.
- Licence Period
- 14.12.2026
- Permanently Restricted Areas
- Germany (DE), Austria (AT), Switzerland (CH), Liechtenstein (LI), Alto Adige, Belgium (BE), Luxembourg (LU), Italy (IT)
- Available Media
- DCP, Blu-ray Disc, 35mm, DVD, Digital Film
- Original Version
- German (de)
DCP
- Subtitles
- English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (Brazil) (pt), Italian (it), Russian (ru), Arabic (ar), German (de), Lithuanian (lt), Polish (pl)
- Note on the Format
- DCP ist verschlüsselt
Blu-ray Disc
- Subtitles
- English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (Brazil) (pt), Italian (it), Russian (ru), Arabic (ar), German (de), Lithuanian (lt)
35mm
- Subtitles
- English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (Brazil) (pt), Italian (it), Russian (ru), Arabic (ar), German (de)
DVD
- Subtitles
- English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (Brazil) (pt), Italian (it), Russian (ru), Arabic (ar), German (de)
Digital Film
- Subtitles
- English (en), French (fr), Italian (it), Russian (ru), Arabic (ar), Lithuanian (lt), Polish (pl), German (full), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil)