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June 24, 2014  |  An Auteurist History of Film
Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Posted by Charles Silver, Curator, Department of Film

Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God. 1973. West Germany. Directed by Werner Herzog

Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God. 1973. West Germany. Directed by Werner Herzog

These notes accompany screenings of Werner Herzog’s </em>Aguirre, the Wrath of God</a> on June 25, 26, and 27 in Theater 2.</p>

I would argue that no director in film history has moved so successfully back and forth between actuality and narrative as Werner Herzog, and Herzog’s skill in ether genre is nowhere better displayed than in Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God).

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