Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes (1972) (aka Aguirre: The Wrath Of God)
Werner Herzog
German
“I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I’ll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen.”
At the time when Rainer Werner Fassbinder was churning out a film in every two or three months, his contemporaries had to struggle to make a mark on the international arena. Things weren’t any better for Werner Herzog, a budding director just two films old… Read More
March 21, 2009 at 2:11 pm
[...] consider it as Herzog’s best film. Clearly, it is up there with the likes of Stroszek (1977), Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) and a few others. Fitzcarraldo follows the titular character’s larger-than-life quest to [...]
March 25, 2009 at 8:22 pm
[...] “Memories of Working with Werner Herzog” that recapitulates his experience during the shoot of Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). But all these essays play second fiddle to the paradisiacal images that occur regularly in [...]
April 26, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Your comparison of Aguirre and Apocalypse is a good point. I do think at times that Herzog’s depiction of insanity was just a documentation of their days of shooting. But then Coppola had Brando to deal with.
You’ve got a great blog. Keep it going.
April 26, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Thanks Vivek. Yes, Virtually every Herzog film is also its making. And no less interesting is the Coppola film. Funniest part being Brando’s refusal to work alongside Hopper since the latter hadn’t had a bath for a number of days!