In the Nineteenth Century, in Bahia, the bandit Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is feared and respected by the locals. He is hired by the lord Octavio Coutinho (José Lewgoy) to work as henchman in one of his plantations of sugar cane, supervising the slaves and the production of sugar. When the three daughters of Octavio are pregnant of Cobra Verde, he is sent to Almeria, in the West of Africa, to negotiate slaves with the crazy African King Abomey, in times when this trade was prohibited by Great Britain. The loneliness associated to the fact of being the only white man in Almeria drives Cobra Verde to insanity.
"Cobra Verde" is boring and non-sense, and certainly the worst movie of Werner Herzog that I have seen so far. Watching this movie actually gives the sensation of seeing a samba-school in the carnival of Rio de Janeiro, with absurd inconsistencies like, for example, the blonde Klaus Kinski performing a Brazilian; the Brazilian and African characters speak German, but the natives sing in their dialect; the title "Don" is not used in Brazil. Last but not the least, Klaus Kinski insane character seems to be a déjà vu of Don Lope de Aguirre. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Cobra Verde" ("Green Snake")
"Cobra Verde" is boring and non-sense, and certainly the worst movie of Werner Herzog that I have seen so far. Watching this movie actually gives the sensation of seeing a samba-school in the carnival of Rio de Janeiro, with absurd inconsistencies like, for example, the blonde Klaus Kinski performing a Brazilian; the Brazilian and African characters speak German, but the natives sing in their dialect; the title "Don" is not used in Brazil. Last but not the least, Klaus Kinski insane character seems to be a déjà vu of Don Lope de Aguirre. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Cobra Verde" ("Green Snake")