(1987) Cobra Verde
(In German with English subtitles)
FICTIONAL HISTORICAL DRAMA
Adapted from a novel by Bruce Chatwin co-written and directed by Werner Herzog that has Klaus Kinski playing the title character, Cobra Verde as an infamous bandit. That opens with him transitioning from working in mud with other impoverished workers until he felt he was unfairly paid by the money manager. He beats him and then moves on, stumbling onto another town where much of the villagers feared him and he decides to enter into an empty tavern. There he begins to bond with the owner who is a dwarf, Euclides Alves da Silva (Guillermo Coronel) who limps. And he motivates him to go his merry way he ends up stopping by a plantation owner, Don Octavio Coutinho (José Lewgoy). And it was during then he uses the name, Francisco Manoel in which during his time there, impregnated some of Don's daughters, angering him. And when he tells him his actual name is Cobra Verde, both the owner, Don and authorities begin to weary and decide to send him to do another assignment, which is to bring slaves.
Adapted from a novel by Bruce Chatwin co-written and directed by Werner Herzog that has Klaus Kinski playing the title character, Cobra Verde as an infamous bandit. That opens with him transitioning from working in mud with other impoverished workers until he felt he was unfairly paid by the money manager. He beats him and then moves on, stumbling onto another town where much of the villagers feared him and he decides to enter into an empty tavern. There he begins to bond with the owner who is a dwarf, Euclides Alves da Silva (Guillermo Coronel) who limps. And he motivates him to go his merry way he ends up stopping by a plantation owner, Don Octavio Coutinho (José Lewgoy). And it was during then he uses the name, Francisco Manoel in which during his time there, impregnated some of Don's daughters, angering him. And when he tells him his actual name is Cobra Verde, both the owner, Don and authorities begin to weary and decide to send him to do another assignment, which is to bring slaves.