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...small expeditionary force that went in advance of the main troop, which was led by the famous conquistador Pizarro. Setting off down the Amazon to bring back word of El Dorado, the smaller group meets so many obstacles that its leader sensibly decides to turn back; Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) leads a rebellion, and the small band continues downriver in search of the golden city...
...action or insist, as most historical dramatists do, on the obvious parallels between his material and modern issues. He does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays out on the screen. Well acted, most notably by Klaus Kinski in the title role, gloriously photographed by Thomas Mauch, Aguirre is, not to put too fine a point on it, a movie that makes a convincing claim to greatness...
...thinking of the heroine's. Both present problems, and before the problems are solved, poor Tony and Senta have been pursued through some of the finest scenery in Morocco by a couple of hilariously heinous international crooks portrayed by Herbert Lorn and a new menace named Klaus Kinski, who looks like Truman Capote with muscles...