Films & Other Videos
Films with: Kinski, Klaus
- Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes Aguirre, the wrath of God /
- A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.
- DVD 1400
- Burden of dreams
- Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
- DVD 3485
- Cobra Verde
- Francisco Manoel da Silva, 19th century, gun-toting Brazilian bandit known as the Cobra Verde, is unknowingly hired by the owner of a sugar plantation to keep his slaves in check, but instead, the Cobra manages to sleep with the landowner's daughters and impregnate them. In revenge, the owner sends the Cobra on a dangerous mission to sail to the West coast of Africa and reopen the slave trade, and the Cobra wages war with a local tribal king.
- DVD 1401
- Fitzcarraldo
- Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
- DVD 1064
- Fitzcarraldo
- Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
- DVD 1402
- Mivtsaʻ Yonatan Operation Thunderbolt /
- The Oscar nominated film and documentary tells the heroic real-life events of Operation Thunderbolt which occurred in Entebbe, Uganda in 1976. The events started when armed terrorist from Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took over Air France flight # 139 from Paris to Tel-Aviv and diverted it to Libya and then Uganda. The Terrorists then issued Israel impossible demands in exchange for the captives, demands, Israel couldn t fulfill. Israel decided to send in its special forces and, in a larger than life operation, released the passengers in what became a mythical and the most famous anti-terrorist special operation ever held.
- DVD 3869
- My best fiend Klaus Kinski = Mein liebster Feind /
- Documentary with film excerpts about the stormy relationship between frequent artistic partners, director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski.
- DVD 1403
- Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht /
- DVD 1404
- Nosferatu the vampyre /
- Jonathan Harker leaves his home town of Wismar and journeys over the Carpathian Mountains on business to finalize a real estate deal despite his wife's warning and her premonition of danger. Harker meets Count Dracula and slowly comes to understand he is in the presence of a vampire. He doesn't understand, however, the magnitude of danger he, his wife and his town are about to experience as victims of the Nosferatu.
- DVD 936
- Woyzeck
- "Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured, both physically and psychologically by commanding officers, doctors and his unfaithful wife, Marie, Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his humanity and his fragile sanity. In the film's shattering climax, he is finally driven over the brink into madness and murder."--Container.
- DVD 1405