CAST:
Klaus Kinski (Francisco Manoel da Silva / Cobra Verde),
King Ampaw (Taparica),
José Lewgoy (Don Octavio Coutinho),
Salvatore Basile (kapetan Fraternidade),
Peter Berling (Bernabé)

SCRIPT:
Werner Herzog (based on novel by Bruce Chatwin)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Viktor Ružička

MUSIC:
Popol Vuh

EDITING:
Maximiliane Mainka

Synopsis:
The action takes place at the turn of the 19th century. Violent Francisco Manoel da Silva, also known as Cobra Verde, works on a sugar cane farm in Brazil as a slave foreman. The owner of the farm decides to get rid of him when he finds out that he has gotten his three daughters pregnant. Cobra Verde is sent to Africa to bring a new shipment of black slaves. However, nobody told him that the place is ruled by a crazy king, and that no white man has come back alive from there for the last ten years… The film is based on the novel by Bruce Chatwin The Viceroy of Ouidah. This was the last film on which Herzog and Kinski cooperated.

color, 111'