Aguirre; the Wrath of God (Aguirre; der Zorn Gottes) is and perhaps always will be Werner Herzogs most important film. Appearing in 1972; Aguirre put Herzog on the map of world cinema. But the films importance also derives from the young German directors tense; behind-the-scenes relationship with actor Klaus Kinski. Did Herzog really direct him at gunpoint? Did they plot each others murder? The legends begin here hellip;In this groundbreaking book; Eric Ames reconstructs the film as an experiment in visualising the past from the viewpoint of the present. Aguirre is not 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 terms of vision. Interweaving close analysis with extensive archival research; Ames explores Aguirre as a seminal film about the madness and hopelessness of Western striving. In addition; 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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