Monthly screening of a Werner Herzog film by the Filmhouse Edinburgh. This month with "Cobra Verde", West Germany/ Ghana 1987, 111 mins. Director: Werner Herzog.
The final collaboration in that most combustible of cinematic partnerships - director Werner Herzog and leading actor Klaus Kinski - is a typically wild adventure.
Kinski plays ‘Cobra Verde’, a fearsome South American bandit hired to negotiate a new slave route with an African tribal king.
Once there he inspires a mutiny, enlisting and training an army of female natives to overthrow the despot. A typically fraught and challenging production, filmed in Brazil, Columbia and Ghana, was accentuated the now legendary explosions of Kinski’s volcanic temper on set.
The air of ever-present conflict and mania marks a fitting conclusion to the series of collaborations between two of cinema’s great eccentrics.
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