Filmseminar Werner Herzog: "Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes"

Peru in the 16th century: Spanish conquistadors search the Amazon region for the legendary gold country "El Dorado". Sub-leader Lope de Aguirre, sent out to explore the jungle and search for food, does not return to the main troop but forces a rebellion. His goal is the establishment of an ideal state and the procreation of a new human race; megalomaniacally, he declares the Spanish King Philip II deposed and calls himself the "Wrath of God". He and his soldiers drift downstream. Hunger, fever and raids by indigenous people decimate the small troop - hallucination and reality begin to intermingle...

An adventure film in the jungle in which nature, history, delusion, symbolism and the reality of a grueling shoot intermingle; Klaus Kinski shines as the pathological guide figure. AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES was the first joint project of the "duo infernale" Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski: "I had the ability to make this wild creature productive on the screen," Herzog said in an interview with "Der Spiegel" in 1999, "which is why I was a necessary counterpart for Kinski."