Wednesday | October 22, 2003 9:30 pm

Aguirre, The Wrath of God
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)

Screening on Film

Directed by Werner Herzog.
With Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro.
West Germany, 1972, 35mm, color, 95 min.
German with English subtitles.

Filming in South America, Herzog recreated the exploits of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Aguirre (Kinski), who with his retinue searched for El Dorado over mountains, through jungles, and down a great river. The film is at once documentary-like and deliriously lyrical: although it identifies with Aguirre's obsessed and unbalanced state of mind, it keeps a critical and ironic distance from the whole adventure. Kinski's performance in the title role is nothing short of phenomenal.

September 22 – November 24, 2003

The New German Cinema (Revisited)

September 25–October 30, 2000

New German Cinema: Alternative Visions and Utopian Designs

July 18–23, 2002

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: Actors K–N

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100