Aguirre, the Wrath of God - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
Timing:
1:35 (95 min)
7.488/10
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7.685/10
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7.8/10
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Hans Prescher
Producer
Writer
Editor
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Editor
Original Music Composer
Popol Vuh
Original Music Composer
Co-Producer
Daniel Camino
Co-Producer
Director of Photography
Thomas Mauch
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Ovidio Ore
Camera Operator
Production Manager
Walter Saxer
Production Manager
Lucki Stipetić
Production Manager
Wolf Stipetić
Production Manager
Sound Designer
Herbert Prasch
Sound Designer
Location Manager
Gustavo Cerff Arbulú
Location Manager
Special Effects
Miguel Vázquez
Special Effects
Juvenal Herrera
Special Effects
Assistant Director
Gustavo Cerff Arbulú
Assistant Director
Production Assistant
Martje Grohmann
Production Assistant
Georg Hagmüller
Production Assistant
Ina Fritsche
Production Assistant
René Lechleitner
Production Assistant
Line Producer
Lucki Stipetić
Line Producer
Sound Recordist
Bob Oliver
Sound Recordist
Second Unit Cinematographer
Francisco Joán
Second Unit Cinematographer
Orlando Macchiavello
Second Unit Cinematographer
What's left behind the scenes
- One night during filming, Klaus Kinski was so angered by the noise coming from a tent where the actors and crew were playing cards that he grabbed a rifle and fired several shots into the tent. As a result, one of the extras lost a finger. Werner Herzog immediately took the weapon away from Kinski.
- The role of the flutist was played by a mentally disabled beggar whom Werner Herzog once saw and decided to cast in the film. This sometimes led to problems during filming because the man turned out to be extremely timid.
- Many moments ended up in the film by chance. In one of the opening scenes, the porters almost drop the palanquin in which Ines is sitting. A hand appears in the frame to help them hold the palanquin. It is the hand of director Werner Herzog.
- In a scene in the Indian village, Klaus Kinski struck one of the actors on the head with a sword. The blow was so powerful that the actor was saved from death only by his helmet.
- This was Werner Herzog's first film with Klaus Kinski. Their creative partnership continued for another 15 years.
- Werner Herzog himself devised the main character's unique gait.
- Werner Herzog worked on the film without storyboards.
- The film was shot in English – the only language known to all members of the crew. The original sound was not used due to its poor quality and was dubbed in German. As director Werner Herzog recounted, Klaus Kinski demanded such a sum for re-recording the sound that they had to find another actor with a similar voice. Gerd Martincen became that actor, his voice being indistinguishable from Kinski's.
- Insufficient funding did not allow for the use of stunt doubles. The crew and actors climbed mountains, hacked through the jungle, and descended river rapids on rafts built by locals. Once, the Amazon River overflowed its banks, flooding the set and destroying all the rafts. The episode of the river overflowing was decided to be included in the plot.
- There were also days when Werner Herzog had to pay for food for the actors and crew with his own watches and shoes, and the actors and crew had to live on those same rafts during the filming of the heroes' raft journey down the Amazon.
- Werner Herzog wanted Klaus Kinski to play the role of Aguirre from the very beginning, as he had known him for several years.
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