Werner Herzog’s haunting epic follows a doomed band of Spanish conquistadors led by the deranged Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) as they descend into madness on a futile quest for El Dorado. Filmed in the Amazon jungle, the film blends historical drama with existential horror, capturing man’s destructive obsession with power and nature’s overwhelming force.

Werner Herzog directs this study of megalomania, set in 16th Century Peru. In the year 1560, a Spanish expedition crosses the Peruvian Sierras in search of the legendary Inca city of El Dorado. A power struggle within the group leads to its deputy (Klaus Kinski) seizing control in bloody fashion, his desire to set up his own kingdom threatening to destroy them all. Cast and crew apparently endured hardships comparable to those suffered by the screen explorers.

Shot entirely on location in the wild Amazonian jungle near Machu Picchu, Aguirre, The Wrath of God stars the legendarily volatile Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu the Vampyre) as Don Lope de Aguirre, a power-crazed sixteenth-century explorer who leads a troupe of conquistadors on a doomed expedition in search of El Dorado, the fabled 'City of Gold'.

A visceral, ambitious exploration of megalomania and savage beauty, Aguirre remains one of Herzog's most brilliant achievements and one of German cinema's totemic masterpieces. Available now on UHD, newly restored in 4K.

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In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.