Cobra verde (1987)
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Scenario: dal romanzo Il viceré di Ouidah di Bruce Chatwin – Director of photography: Victor Ruzicka – Film editor: Maximiliane Mainka – Production design: Ulrieh Bergfelder – Costume: Gisela Storch – Sound: Haymo Henry Heyder – Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh) – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 111’
Cast: Klaus Kinski (Francisco Manoel da Silva), King Ampaw (Taparica), José Lewgoy (Don Octavio Coutinho), Salvatore Basile (Captain Fraternidade), Peter Berling (Bernabo), Gillermo Coronel (Euclides), Nana Agyefi Kwame II (Bossa Ahedee), Yolanda Garcia (Dona Epiphania), Nana Fedu Abodo (Yovogan), Kofi Yerenkyi (Bakoko)
The film:
“The film is about the story of the rise and the decadence of a man who comes from the cruel nature of Brazil. It’s as if the look, once disembarked in Africa, decided to shut itself up in the brief space between the fortress and the sea, following the claustrophobic anxieties of the protagonist, with the eye always directed towards an impossible restart.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 114]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Cobra verde was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original 35 mm negatives conserved by Werner Herzog Film Archive.
The preservation of the film is part of a project to valorize the works by Werner Herzog, including the homage Signs of life. Tribute to Werner Herzog organized by Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 2008.
The event showed the complete retrospective, the photography exhibition, a concert and a workshop and it was realized together with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Scuola Holden, the Teatro Regio of Torino, the Werner Herzog Film and the German Film.
The preservation was carried out in 2007 at the laboratories ARRI and Geyer.
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