COBRA VERDE
A Refocus Film Festival Classics Selection
Adapted from English travel writer and novelist Bruce Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, the final collaboration between Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog sees Kinski merging his characters from Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo to play Francisco Manoel de Silva, a Brazilian rancher-cum-slave trader who is sent to the West African kingdom of Dahomey to round up slaves in hopes that the native people will see to his demise. But will the wiley Cobra Verde manage to successfully survive this death mission?