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Cobra Verde, 1987

Starring: Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Written by: Werner Herzog

Language: German

Country: West Germany, Ghana

Runtime: 111 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.0

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The mood of Cobra Verde is captivating, suspenseful, and atmospheric. The plot centers around being rich or poor, chaos and mayhem, and injustice. It is a drama, foreign, and adventure movie. Stylistically, Cobra Verde is surreal. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Cobra Verde is set in Brazil and Africa. It happens in the 19th century. It is based on a book.

Summary of Cobra Verde

Filmed in Ghana, Brazil, and Colombia, Cobra Verde is a visually astonishing 19th-century true-life tale about a Brazilian bandit known as Cobra Verde (played by the ever-intense Klaus Kinski) who is exiled to West Africa to rejuvenate the slave trade. Once he's in Africa, his sanity is put to the ultimate test, as he is an unwanted outsider in a foreign, uncultivated world. Holed up in a deserted slave fortress on the coast, Cobra Verde, like many Herzog/Kinski creations before him, goes about constructing an elaborate and unlikely scheme--in this case to build up a vast slave trade ruled under his iron fist. His plans fall apart, however, when the civil wars waged by the insane Leopard King come crashing down on Cobra Verde and his plans. When the bandit is rescued by the king's equally crazy brother, Cobra Verde gathers a vast army of Amazon women warriors and plans to regain his dominance. The exquisitely photographed dusty and alien landscape of the African coast is juxtaposed evocatively with the ridiculous behavior of the slave traders as represented by Cobra Verde. Herzog crafts a deft and powerful vision of human folly and the eventual tragedy that follows, chronicling Cobra Verde's descent into total madness and self-destruction.

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Language:	German
Country:	West Germany, Ghana
Release date:	23 March 2007
Runtime:	111 min

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Klaus Kinski

as Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde

José Lewgoy

as Don Octavio Coutinho

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The New York Times

Connoisseurs of craziness need wait no longer. Cobra Verde opens today in all its feral, baffling glory. Along with "Aguirre" and "Fitzcarraldo," Cobra Verde completes a trilogy of mayhem and megalomania in hot climates. Full Review

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by: A.O. Scott

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Linear storytelling was never Herzog's strong suit even under the best of conditions. His strength lies in capturing lucid lunacy on film, and Manoel da Silva's descent into the jaws of madness is a straight shot into the heart of darkness, a place... Full Review

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by: Maitland McDonagh

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By the time Herzog and Kinsky got to "Verde" (their final film together), the style and theme of these collaborations had become well established, with the possible exception that in "Cobra Verde" there is much less to do with Mother Nature than in... Read and rate it

20.March.2009
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by: sethdellinger
sethdellinger rated this movie0/10

I like Werner Herzog, the director of this film, and its star, Klaus Kinski, a lot. But "Cobra Verde" is largely a mess. Not only is the film too long, but every scene goes on way, way too long. Despite its length, you never really get to understand... Read and rate it

19.March.2009
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by: Vic
Vic rated this movie4/10Disappointing

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