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Cobra Verde (1987)

Drama | 111 minutes
3,14 107 votes

Genre: Drama / Adventure

Duration: 111 minuten

Country: West Germany / Ghana

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Stars: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw and José Lewgoy

IMDb score: 6,9 (9.025)

Releasedate: 3 December 1987

Cobra Verde plot

This film tells the story of the colorful, bare-footed bandit Francisco Manoel da Silva, better known as Cobra Verde, who finds himself transferred from supervisor of a Colombian sugar cane plantation to the coast of West Africa to export slaves.

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mister blonde

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Although I don't quite know what you mean by the first sentence xav, I can imagine the rest of your post. Film is particularly distant. The story is poorly told and Herzog seems to lose himself in the grotesque. However, the latter also provides the interesting aspects of this film and some beautiful scenes, but it is an incoherent whole. Fitzcarraldo and Aquirre der Zorn Gottes were many times stronger. If you add Kinski's intense role to that, I still end up with a 3.5 star rating.

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After the criticism from Jeroen123 there is really nothing more to add. As a character, Cobra Verde is barely introduced, after which his fate indeed seems particularly bizarre. It seems as if Herzog was hardly interested in the plot, but rather looked for an excuse to film local customs somewhere in West Africa. There was clearly no question of post-colonialism in 1987, on the contrary: are hundreds of Africans deliberately taking off their clothes here, or is Herzog taking advantage of their unfamiliarity with the scope of his medium in order to capture them supposedly authentically?

Ultimately, it seems as if 'Cobra Verde' is simply working towards the final image: Klaus Kinski and his Sisyphus work... or: the impossibility of man to run away from his fate, especially if this is due to other, transcendent forces are dictated, either by financial motives or by spiritual ones. As much as Cobra Verde (who the hell came up with that name?) seems like a freeloader, no one escapes such dynamics. Not even the most feared bandit in South America.

Having said that, 'Cobra Verde'is a complete failure, although Herzog once again burns images into the retina. Like Kinski, lonely, hunched over his correspondence, at a long empty table, between four moldy walls. That can count as an image of Schopenhauer's tragic fate as a human being, right?

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