Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany, Mexico, Peru
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
- gold
- sentence
- peru
- insanity
- gold rush
- amazon rainforest
- float
- south america
- 16th century
- conquest
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Klaus Kinski
Don Lope de Aguirre
Helena Rojo
Inés de Atienza
Del Negro
Brother Gaspar de Carvajal
Ruy Guerra
Don Pedro de Ursúa
- Peter Berling — Don Fernando de Guzmán
- Cecilia Rivera — Flores, Aguirre's Daughter
- Daniel Ades — Perucho
- Edward Roland — Okello
- Alexandra Cheves
- Armando Polanah — Armando
- Daniel Farfán
- Julio E. Martínez
- Alejandro Repullés — Gonzalo Pizarro
- Claus Biederstaedt — Brother Gaspar de Carvajal (voice) (uncredited)
- Lothar Blumhagen — Don Pedro de Ursúa (voice) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Werner Herzog
- Written
- Werner Herzog
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,293 ratings
- Studio
- Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, HR
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
