Cobra Verde (1987)
Country: GER
Technical: col 111m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy
Synopsis:
In the early nineteenth century a paroled Brazilian bandit is sent to Dahomey with some troops in order to persuade the local king to reinstate the transatlantic slave trade.
Review:
Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski was a troubled production, its portrait of reckless firebrand Francisco Manoel da Silva apparently one of the actor himself. What should have been another Queimada!, with its ironic view of the double standards at work in the politics of slavery, is instead an overcluttered narrative as if bearing the scars of its star's increasingly violent whims and tirades.
Country: GER
Technical: col 111m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy
Synopsis:
In the early nineteenth century a paroled Brazilian bandit is sent to Dahomey with some troops in order to persuade the local king to reinstate the transatlantic slave trade.
Review:
Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski was a troubled production, its portrait of reckless firebrand Francisco Manoel da Silva apparently one of the actor himself. What should have been another Queimada!, with its ironic view of the double standards at work in the politics of slavery, is instead an overcluttered narrative as if bearing the scars of its star's increasingly violent whims and tirades.
Country: GER
Technical: col 111m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy
Synopsis:
In the early nineteenth century a paroled Brazilian bandit is sent to Dahomey with some troops in order to persuade the local king to reinstate the transatlantic slave trade.
Review:
Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski was a troubled production, its portrait of reckless firebrand Francisco Manoel da Silva apparently one of the actor himself. What should have been another Queimada!, with its ironic view of the double standards at work in the politics of slavery, is instead an overcluttered narrative as if bearing the scars of its star's increasingly violent whims and tirades.