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ALL-TIME 100 Movies
Presenting the ALL-TIME 100 best films as chosen by TIME'S movie critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
By Richard Corliss Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005
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Directed By: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo
The 70s established Herzog as the most defiantly visionary of directors. In Every Man for Himself (And God Against All), Heart of Glass, Nosferatu the Vampire and his amazing documentary about the Guadeloupean volcano La Soufriere, he created worlds beyond civilization, whose ravishing beauty could drive intruders mad. Who better to play the overweening man, intoxicated to the point of insanity, than Klaus Kinski, Herzog's house demon? (Herzog made a fascinating documentary, the 1998 My Best Fiend, about his hectic relationship with the actor.) Aguirre is the prototype Herzog-Kinski collaboration, about a Spanish explorer who loses his mission, men and mind on an Amazon adventure. Answering only to the logic of Peru's natural beauty, the film seems an examination of madness from the inside. Sumptuous, spellbinding and immediately, eternally scary.
From the TIME Archive:
"The most admirable thing about Aguirre may be the discipline with which Herzog tells his tale"
—TIME Magazine, May 16, 1977 >>
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