Cobra Verde ( 1987 )

Cobra Verde ( 1987 ) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
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
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:

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.

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.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 27 September, 2016.