advancedfilesizeSynopsis: 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. This fifth and final collaboration between director Herzog and Kinski is considered the weakest of the five features. Though the title translates literally as Green Cobra, Cobra Verde was released in the U.S. as Slave Coast.
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Flaws acknowledged, Cobra Verde is still a stunning, beautiful epic, and if the narrative slips into an incoherent muddle from time to time, the film is for the most part a riveting, entrancing piece of cinema, and it contains some of the most memorable images that Herzog has ever composed. -- Jaime Christley |
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IMDb (external reviews)IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094888/IMDb Rating: 7.0/10 (1,365 votes)
Tomatometer: 86%
Awards:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094888/awardsDirected by: Werner Herzog
Cast:
Klaus Kinski .... Francisco Manoel da Silva
King Ampaw .... Taparica
Jose Lewgoy .... Don Octavio Coutinho
Salvatore Basile .... Captain Fraternidade
Nana Agyefi Kwame II .... Bossa Ahadee
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Title: Cobra Verde (1987) aka Slave Coast Source: DVD Retail / R1, NTSC / Anchor Bay Size: 1.562.851.328 bytes (1/3 DVDR) Runtime: 01:50:21 Format: AVI - OpenDML (AVI v2.0)
Video Codec: XviD (xvid_encraw 1.2) Video Bitrate: 1689 kbps Resolution: 688x384 Aspect Ratio: 1.79 Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Audio Codec: AC3 (2 channels) Audio Bitrate: 192 kbps Sampling Rate: 48 KHz Interleave: 96 ms (2.3 v.frames), preload=96 Split across interleaves
Language: German Subtitles (SRT): English
SA: B-VOP, No Qpel, No GMC, No P-Bit CQM: Jawor's 1CD |
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