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Cobra Verde (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Werner Herzog

Written By:
Bruce Chatwin (novel)
Werner Herzog

Actors:
Klaus Kinski ..... Francisco Manoel da Silva
Nana Fedu Abodo
King Ampaw ..... Taparica
Salvatore Basile ..... Captain Fraternidade
Peter Berling
Kofi Bryan
Guillermo Coronel
Kwesi Fase
Nana Agyefi Kwame II
José Lewgoy ..... Don Octavio Coutinho
Carlos Mayolo
Pedro Oliveira
Benito Stefanelli ..... Captain Pedro Vincente
Kofi Yerenkyi

Synopsis:

Director Werner Herzog, as usual, has spared no one -- especially himself -- in bringing this story of 19th-century African slave trading to the screen. Klaus Kinski plays an enterprising young Brazilian who after impregnating the three daughters of his plantation-owning employer, is sent to West Africa to round up slaves. Kinski goes to great lengths to befriend the very people he hopes to enslave and he eventually manages to overthrow a mad monarch and set himself up as king. As the years pass, Kinski grows wealthy -- and careless. However, despite enslaving the tribe, he does show some signs of humanitarian benevolence. Though the title translates literally as Green Cobra, Cobra Verde was released in the U.S. as Slave Coast.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 19 May, 2006.

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