Cobra Verde1987
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Amazing. So sad it wasn't released until a few years ago.
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- Nana Fedu Abodo - Yovogan
- King Ampaw - Taparica
- Salvatore Basile - Captain Fraternidade
- Peter Berling - Bernabé
- Guillermo Coronel - Euclides
- Nana Agyefi Kwame II - Bossa Ahadee
- Klaus Kinski - Francisco Manoel da Silva
- José Lewgoy - Don Octavio Coutinho
- Pedro Oliveira
- Benito Stefanelli - Pedro Vicente
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Amazing. So sad it wasn't released until a few years ago.
Cobra Verde is Werner Herzog's forgotten masterpiece. A rich, lush renaissance painting of a movie; Cobra Verde forms a trilogy with Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre. Three takes on essentially the same story, the same journey - though each with a different end. Fitzcarraldo is day, Aguirre is night, and Cobra Verde is the mystic twilight between. The main complaint I see leveled at this movie is that it has too little Klaus--that and the dreamy, flowing plot--but I think it has just the right amount of him. Klaus is at his best, his most energetic, his most believable as an amoral bandit-turned-manipulative-slave-trader. This is also his most quotable role: "in my home country, I was a snake!" Contained herein is a forgotten work of deep and confounding symbolism; a lush and complex poem of a movie. Please, please watch Cobra Verde.
"The slaves will sell their masters and grow wings" This film takes you through a very strange and unsettling journey. It 's not a cathartic film nor one that seeks justice but simply shows things as they were/are. The quote above from "Cobra Verde", while at first seems to imply freedom, is really a statement that speaks of a cycles not freedom. This is, altogether, both an amazing film and a troubling one. Well worth watching but leaves a haunting madness in the back of the throat.
I love this movie but I'm biased; I'm a big fan off both Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, together they make incredible films. Cobra Verde, haunting story, haunting characters; I highly recommend it.
Kinski is pure rare mad genius. Herzog is among the most indomitable
filmmakers of all time ever.
another Klaus Kinski epic performance ...
Epic in scale, but lacking the emotional weight one might expect. Where Aguirre offers an entirely critical representation of colonialism, Fitzcarraldo effects both empathy and disgust. Cobra Verde, on the other hand, leans toward ambivalent nihilism. Characterization and narrative structure take a back seat to exoticism. Relatively reserved performance from Kinski when compared to other Herzog collaborations.
Aaron C. said it best.
it is visually compelling, but the narrative is broken
Enough of Kinski.
a little bit like a National Geography production on acid!
kinki / Herzog :what a duo this does make
As usual,I enjoyed the Herzog visual and aural extravaganza. However, I found the Kinski character very thin and undeveloped, and the final, boat dragging, scene incredibly poignant.
High production quality. No sympathy or empathy for the principal character.
excellent photography and performances. Like visiting the heart of darkness.
so dope