Herzog & Kinski Collection - 6-DVD Set ( Aguirre: The Wrath of God / Cobra Verde / Fitzcarraldo / My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski / Nosferatu the Vampyre / Woyzeck ) ( Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Slave Coast / Fitzcarraldo / Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski / Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night) / Werner Herzog's Woyzeck )

Herzog & Kinski Collection - 6-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Aguirre: The Wrath of God / Cobra Verde / Fitzcarraldo / My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski / Nosferatu the Vampyre / Woyzeck
Alternate Title: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Slave Coast / Fitzcarraldo / Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski / Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night) / Werner Herzog's Woyzeck
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Cartagena Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
643 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1972 - 1999 and produced in:
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Ghana ( Africa, Middle East )
Peru ( Latin America, Mexico )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Werner Herzog

Written By:
Werner Herzog
Bruce Chatwin
Georg Büchner

Actors:
Klaus Kinski ..... Don Lope de Aguirre
Helena Rojo ..... Inez
Del Negro ..... Brother Gaspar de Carvajal
Ruy Guerra ..... Don Pedro de Ursua
Peter Berling ..... Don Fernando de Guzman
Cecilia Rivera ..... Flores
Daniel Ades ..... Perucho
Edward Roland ..... Okello
Alejandro Chavez ..... Armando
Armando Polanah ..... Gonzalo Pizarro
Daniel Farfán
Julio E. Martínez
Alejandro Repullés
Indianern der Kooperative Lauramarca
Klaus Kinski ..... Francisco Manoel da Silva
Cobra Verde ..... Taparica
King Ampaw ..... Don Octavio Coutinho
José Lewgoy ..... Captain Fraternidade
Salvatore Basile ..... Bernabé
Peter Berling ..... Euclides
Guillermo Coronel ..... Bossa Ahadee
Nana Agyefi Kwame II ..... Yovogan
Nana Fedu Abodo ..... Bakoko
Kofi Yerenkyi ..... Kankpe
Kwesi Fase ..... Pedro Vicente
Benito Stefanelli ..... Governor of Bahia
Kofi Bryan
Carlos Mayolo
Pedro Oliveira
A. Kwesi Compson
Klaus Kinski ..... Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo'
Claudia Cardinale ..... Molly
José Lewgoy ..... Don Aquilino
Miguel Ángel Fuentes ..... Cholo
Paul Hittscher ..... Captain (Orinoco Paul)
Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez ..... Huerequeque (The Cook)
Grande Otelo ..... Station master
Peter Berling ..... Opera Manager
David Pérez Espinosa ..... Chief of Campa Indians
Milton Nascimento ..... Blackman At Opera House
Ruy Polanah ..... Rubber Baron
Salvador Godínez ..... Old Missionary
Dieter Milz ..... Young Missionary
William Rose ..... Notary
Leoncio Bueno
Werner Herzog ..... Himself - Narrator / Interviewer
Claudia Cardinale ..... Herself
Justo González ..... Himself (also archive footage)
Mick Jagger ..... Himself - Wilbur (archive footage)
Klaus Kinski ..... Himself (archive footage)
Eva Mattes ..... Herself
Thomas Mauch ..... Himself
Benino Moreno Placido ..... Himself (also archive footage)
Beat Presser ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jason Robards ..... Fitzcarraldo
Guillermo Ríos ..... Himself (archive footage)
Walter Saxer ..... Himself (archive footage)
Baron van der Recke ..... Himself
Baronin van der Recke ..... Herself
Andrés Vicente ..... Himself (archive footage)
Klaus Kinski ..... Count Dracula
Isabelle Adjani ..... Lucy Harker
Bruno Ganz ..... Jonathan Harker
Roland Topor ..... Renfield
Walter Ladengast ..... Dr. Van Helsing
Dan van Husen ..... Warden
Jan Groth ..... Harbormaster
Carsten Bodinus ..... Schrader
Martje Grohmann ..... Mina
Rijk de Gooyer ..... Town official
Clemens Scheitz ..... Clerk
Lo van Hensbergen ..... Coachman
John Leddy ..... Vrouw
Margiet van Hartingsveld ..... Coffinbearer
Tim Beekman
Klaus Kinski ..... Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
Eva Mattes ..... Marie
Wolfgang Reichmann ..... Captain
Willy Semmelrogge ..... Doctor
Josef Bierbichler ..... Drum Major
Paul Burian ..... Andres
Volker Prechtel ..... Handwerksbursche
Dieter Augustin ..... Marktschreier
Irm Hermann ..... Margret
Wolfgang Bächler ..... Jew
Rosemarie Heinikel ..... Unteroffizier
Herbert Fux
Thomas Mettke
Maria Mettke

Synopsis:

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

Cobra Verde (1987)
The feared bandit Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves.

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle.

My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski (1999)
In the 1950s, a teenage Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski.

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Varna, where Jonathan lives.

Woyzeck (1979)
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control.

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirres, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to 'the golden city', or to certain destruction?

Cobra Verde (1987)
In the Nineteenth Century, in Bahia, the bandit Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde is feared and respected by the locals. He is hired by the lord Octavio Coutinho to work as henchman in one of his plantations of sugar cane, supervising the slaves and the production of sugar. When the three daughters of Octavio are pregnant of Cobra Verde, he is sent to Almeria, in the West of Africa, to negotiate slaves with the crazy African King Abomey, in times when this trade was prohibited by Great Britain. The loneliness associated to the fact of being the only white man in Almeria drives Cobra Verde to insanity.

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
1896. A penniless entrepreneur, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (called Fitzcarraldo by the Indians) living in Iquitos, a shanty town on the Amazon thousands of miles from anywhere, has a dream: to bring opera to the town, and especially Caruso, who has just given a performance in the rubber-boom city of Manaus. To get Caruso, he has to build an opera house, which involves his undertaking a scheme to exploit a hitherto inaccessible area of rubber trees, which lies beyond rapids never before navigated.

My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski (1999)
To say the working relationship between director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski was often stormy strains the boundaries of understatement. Kinski's tirades against Herzog are the stuff of legend -- Kinski's scabrous autobiography All I Need is Love features a number of venomous rants against the director far too foul to recount here, while Herzog had to threaten Kinski with murder to get him to complete his work on Aguirre, The Wrath Of God. However, the collaboration between these two men, no matter how combative, resulted in the finest, most memorable work of either's career, including Aguirre, Nosferatu, Woyzeck and Fitzcarraldo, before Kinski's death in 1991 ended the partnership. Mein Leibster Feind/My Best Fiend is a documentary by Herzog about his work with Kinski, and portrays the actor with a large degree of affection while making no secret of his volatile nature (an actor displays a scar on his head from a wound Kinski inflicted with a sword, while an outtake from Fitzcarraldo shows him terrorizing a member of the crew). Despite their remarkable differences, Herzog sums up their working relationship with admirable conclusion: "We complemented one another. I needed him and he needed me." Mein Leibster Feind/My Best Fiend was produced for European television, though it did receive a screening (out of competition) at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
In Wismar, Germany, Lucy and the real state agent Jonathan Harker is a happily married couple. Jonathan's boss Renfield sends him to Transylvania to sell an old house in Wismar to Count Dracula. Jonathan is advised by the locals of a village to return since the count is a vampire, but he does not give up of his intent. Jonathan visits Count Dracula and when he sees the photograph of Lucy, he immediately buys the real estate. He drinks the blood of Jonathan and navigates to Wismar, carrying coffins with the soil of his land, rats and plague in the ship. Along the voyage, Count Dracula kills the crew-members and a ghost vessel arrives in Wismar. Meanwhile Jonathan rides to his homeland to save Lucy from the vampire.

Woyzeck (1979)
Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, Woyzeck is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. Woyzeck, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods of guilt and remorse, carries on affairs and flirtations. When the captain lets drop broad hints of Woyzeck's being a cuckold, his inner demons and the voices of the spheres take over. Will madness bring action? Of what sort?

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

Cobra Verde (1987)
The feared bandit Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves. After the owner suspects Cobra Verde of consorting with his young daughters, the owner wishes him gone. Rather than kill him, the owner sends Cobra Verde to Africa. The only white man in the area, Cobra Verde finds himself the victim of torture and humiliation. Later, he trains soldiers in a rebel army. Far from home, Cobra Verde is on the edge of madness.

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.

My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski (1999)
In the 1950s, a teenage Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the bathroom. From this chaos, a violent, love-hate, profoundly creative partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Varna, where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Varna, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.

Woyzeck (1979)
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured, both physically and psychologically by commanding officers, doctors and his unfaithful wife, Marie, Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his humanity and his fragile sanity.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 15 September, 2012.