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72-449: Aguirre may refer to: Media [ edit ] Aguirre, the Wrath of God , a 1972 film by Werner Herzog, loosely based on the career of Lope de Aguirre (1510–1561) Aguirre (soundtrack) , the soundtrack to Herzog's film, composed and performed by Popol Vuh Places [ edit ] Aguirre, Salinas, Puerto Rico , a barrio in

144-665: A Bible comes from events before the Battle of Cajamarca , in which Inca emperor Atahualpa allegedly rejected the Requerimiento (declaration by the Spanish monarchy in 1513 of its divine right to take New World territories). The chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , La Relación (" The Account "), mentions the appearance of a boat in a treetop after a fierce tropical storm in Hispaniola : Monday morning we went down to

216-419: A copy of the screenplay. "Between three and four in the morning, the phone rang", Herzog recalled. "It took me at least a couple of minutes before I realized that it was Kinski who was the source of this inarticulate screaming. And after an hour of this, it dawned on me that he found it the most fascinating screenplay and wanted to be Aguirre." From the beginning of the production, Herzog and Kinski argued about

288-466: A group of forty men to build rafts and scout down the river. If they do not return to the main party within one week with news of what lies beyond, they will be considered lost. Pizarro chooses Don Pedro de Ursúa as the commander of the expedition, Don Lope de Aguirre as his second-in-command, portly nobleman Don Fernando de Guzmán to represent the Spanish crown , and Brother Gaspar de Carvajal to bring

360-403: A magnificent social metaphor". Danny Peary wrote, "To see Aguirre for the first time is to discover a genuine masterpiece. It is overwhelming, spellbinding; at first dreamlike, and then hallucinatory." Roger Ebert has added it to his list of The Great Movies , and in a 2002 Sight & Sound poll of critics and filmmakers on the best films ever made, Ebert listed it in his top ten. In

432-401: A monkey, he asks, "Who else is with me?" The idea for the film began when Herzog borrowed a book on historical adventurers from a friend. After reading a half-page devoted to Lope de Aguirre, the filmmaker became inspired and immediately devised the story. He fabricated most of the plot details and characters, although he did use some historical figures in purely fictitious ways. Herzog wrote

504-406: A single large raft. An indigenous couple approaching peacefully by canoe are captured by the explorers, and when the man expresses confusion upon being presented with a Bible, Brother Carvajal kills them for blasphemy. Guzmán dines on the low food supplies while the men starve, and has the expedition's only remaining horse pushed off the raft because it annoys him; soon afterwards he is found dead near

576-495: A splendid and haunting work." In Time , Richard Schickel opined that "[Herzog] does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays out on the screen. Well acted, most notably by Klaus Kinski in the title role, gloriously photographed by Thomas Mauch, Aguirre is, not to put too fine a point on it, a movie that makes a convincing claim to greatness." Time Out's Tony Rayns noted, "each scene and each detail

648-484: A surname Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Aguirre . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aguirre&oldid=1184448049 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

720-620: A theatrical release in the United States in 1977 by New Yorker Films . It immediately became a cult film, and New Yorker Films reported four years after its initial release that it was the only film in its catalog that never went out of circulation. In Germany, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described the film as "a colour-drenched, violently physical moving painting". The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described Kinski's acting as "too theatrical" to embody God's wrath. In

792-415: A theft. For me, it was truly a necessity. I wanted to make films and needed a camera. I had some sort of natural right to this tool. If you need air to breathe, and you are locked in a room, you have to take a chisel and hammer and break down a wall. It is your absolute right. To obtain the monkeys used in the climactic sequence, Herzog paid several locals to trap 400 monkeys. He paid them half in advance and

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864-477: A wooden ship perched in the highest branches of a tall tree. Aguirre orders that it be brought down and refurbished, but Brother Carvajal refuses. In a series of attacks by unseen assailants, all of the remaining crew except Aguirre are killed by arrows. Monkeys overrun the raft as Aguirre imagines conquering all of the Americas and founding an incestuous dynasty with his deceased daughter to rule over it. Picking up

936-402: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Aguirre, the Wrath of God Aguirre, the Wrath of God ( Spanish: [aˈɣire] ; German : Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes ; [aˈɡɪʁə deːɐ̯ ˌtsɔʁn ˈɡɔtəs] ) is a 1972 epic historical drama film produced, written and directed by Werner Herzog . Klaus Kinski stars in

1008-433: Is honed down to its salient features. On this level, the film effectively pre-empts analysis by analysing itself as it proceeds, admitting no ambiguity. Yet at the same time, Herzog's flair for charged explosive imagery has never had freer rein, and the film is rich in oneiric moments ." The film's reputation through the years has continued to grow. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 96% of 50 critics gave

1080-569: The Amazon River tributaries of the Ucayali region . Aguirre was shot in five weeks following nine months of pre-production planning. The film was shot in chronological order, as Herzog believed the film crew's progress on the river directly mirrored that of the explorers' journey in the story. The director and his cast and crew floated in rafts down the Huallaga and Nanay rivers through

1152-620: The Amazonian jungle , an inhospitable territory devoid of provisions. Gonzalo Pizarro ordered his second in command, Francisco de Orellana to follow the Napo River with fifty men, in order to find its mouth. The hope was that the men would be able to find provisions and bring them back in the small boat in which they went. Orellana reached the confluence of the Napo and Trinidad River, but he didn't find provisions. Unable to return because of

1224-625: The Dominican order in Spain, he set out for Peru in 1533, dedicating himself to the conversion of the Native American aboriginals. In 1540, Carvajal joined as a chaplain the expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro , governor of Quito , which was searching for La Canela , the supposed "Land of Cinnamon", to the east of Quito. The expedition, under difficult conditions, crossed the Andes and into

1296-702: The National Society of Film Critics in the United States gave it their "Best Cinematography" Award. It won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association in 1976 and was nominated for a "Best Film" César Award . Francis Ford Coppola 's 1979 film Apocalypse Now , a film based on Joseph Conrad 's 1902 novella Heart of Darkness , was also influenced by Aguirre , containing seemingly deliberate visual "quotations" of Herzog's film. Coppola himself has noted that " Aguirre , with its incredible imagery,

1368-416: The Ucayali region . The cast and crew climbed mountains, cut through heavy vines to open routes to the various jungle locations, and rode treacherous river rapids on rafts built by local craftworkers. Aguirre opened to widespread critical acclaim, and quickly developed a large international cult following. It was given an extensive arthouse theatrical release in the United States in 1977, and remains one of

1440-535: The Urubamba Valley . All of the actors spoke their dialogue in English. The members of the cast and crew came from sixteen countries, and English was the only common language among them. In addition, Herzog felt that shooting Aguirre in English would improve the film's chances for international distribution. However, the small amount of money that had been set aside for post-synchronization "left Peru with

1512-594: The 46th greatest cult film ever made. The film was ranked #19 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. Aguirre has won several prestigious film awards. In 1973 it won the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Award) for "Outstanding Individual Achievement: Cinematography". In 1976 it was voted the "Best Foreign Film" by the French Syndicate of Film Critics. In 1977

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1584-480: The Amazon basin in search of El Dorado. Various troubles afflicted the expedition and, sure that El Dorado was very close, Pizarro set up a smaller group led by Francisco de Orellana, to break off from the main group and forge ahead, then return with news of what they had found. This group utilized a brigantine to journey down the river. After failing to find the legendary city, Orellana was unable to return because of

1656-682: The Indies"), which was written in 1542, but not published until 1855. In 1934, Relación was again published, this time extensively revised by Harry Clifton Heaton (1885–1950), professor of Romance languages at New York University. It is in a large extent due to Relación that Friar Carvajal is remembered in history. Father Carvajal's diary of the Orellana expedition has achieved prominence recently. For over four centuries, scholars dismissed its reports of large cities, well developed roads, monumental construction, fortified towns, and dense populations. It

1728-563: The US and the UK the film received mostly positive critical notices upon release. Vincent Canby , writing in The New York Times , called it "[A]bsolutely stunning ... Mr. Herzog views all the proceedings with fixed detachment. He remains cool. He takes no sides. He may even be slightly amused. Mainly he is a poet who constantly surprises us with unexpected juxtapositions ... This is

1800-408: The Wrath of God . The four remaining tracks were derived from various recordings made by the group between about 1972 and 1974. At the time of Aguirre the band members were Fricke (piano, Mellotron), Fichelscher (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums), Djong Yun (vocals), and Robert Eliscu (oboe, pan pipe). The film features several music pieces that have not been released in any form. While Herzog

1872-459: The band and the director. Popol Vuh's "hypnotic music" for Aguirre met with considerable acclaim. Roger Ebert wrote, "The music sets the tone. It is haunting, ecclesiastical, human and yet something else ... [T]he music is crucial to Aguirre, the Wrath of God ". AllMusic noted, "The film's central motif blends pulsing Moog and spectral voices conjured from Florian Fricke's Mellotron-related 'choir organ' to achieve something sublime, in

1944-417: The bodies to be brought back to camp for burial. Knowing this would slow down the expedition, Aguirre suggests that Perucho fire the cannon to clean the rust from it. He fires at the raft, destroying it and throwing the bodies into the river. During the night, the remaining rafts are swept away by the rising river. Time has run out for the scouting mission, and Ursúa decides to return to Pizarro's group despite

2016-503: The city of El Dorado. Commissioned by Peru's governor, Ursúa organized an expeditionary group of 300 men to travel by way of the Amazon River. He was accompanied by his mixed-race mistress, Doña Inez. At one point during the journey, Aguirre, a professional soldier, decided that he could use the 300 men to overthrow the Spanish rule of Peru. Aguirre had Ursúa murdered and proclaimed Fernando as "The Prince of Peru". Fernando himself

2088-525: The current, and he and his men continued to follow the Napo River until he reached the estuary of the Amazon in 1542. Accompanying Orellana was Gaspar de Carvajal , who kept a journal of the group's experiences. The historic Gaspar de Carvajal (1500–1584) was a Spanish Dominican friar who had settled in Peru and dedicated himself to the conversion of the Indigenous peoples. His general attitude towards

2160-529: The current, he decided to continue following the river, until he reached the estuary of the Amazon in 1542. Carvajal, who was one of the survivors of the expedition, narrated the events in his work Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande que descubrió por muy gran ventura el capitán Francisco de Orellana ("Account of the recent discovery of the famous Grand river which was discovered by great good fortune by Captain Francisco de Orellana"). In it,

2232-456: The danger from hostile natives. Aguirre leads a mutiny against Ursúa, telling the men that untold riches await them ahead, and reminding them that Hernán Cortés won an empire in Mexico by disobeying orders. Ursúa orders Aguirre arrested, but he and a soldier loyal to him are shot. Aguirre nominates Guzmán as the new leader of the expedition and rebels against the Spanish crown, proclaiming Guzmán

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2304-596: The director's best-known films. Several critics have declared the film a masterpiece, and it has appeared on Time magazine's list of "All Time 100 Best Films". On Christmas Day, 1560, several scores of Spanish conquistadors under Gonzalo Pizarro and a hundred native slaves march down from the newly conquered Inca Empire into the Amazon rainforest in search of the fabled El Dorado . The men, clad in half armor , pull cannons down narrow mountain paths and through dense, muddy jungle. On New Year's Eve , Pizarro orders

2376-433: The emperor of El Dorado. A farcical trial of Ursúa results in his being sentenced to death, but Guzmán surprises Aguirre by granting Ursúa clemency. Aguirre remains the true leader of the mutiny, so oppressive and terrifying that few protest his leadership. Only Inés has the courage to speak out against him. Knowing that some of the soldiers are still loyal to Ursúa, Aguirre ignores her. The expedition continues downriver on

2448-420: The end of the film was totally different. The end was actually the raft going out into the open ocean and being swept back inland, because for many miles you have a counter-current, the Amazon actually goes backwards. And it was tossed to and fro. And a parrot would scream: 'El Dorado, El Dorado ' ". This ending was eventually adapted for Cobra Verde , Herzog's final film with Kinski. Herzog's first choice for

2520-496: The explosive Kinski fired three gunshots at it, blowing the tip off of one extra's finger. Kinski subsequently decided to leave the jungle location over Herzog's refusal to fire a sound assistant, only changing his mind after Herzog threatened to shoot first Kinski and then himself. The latter incident has given rise to the legend that Herzog made Kinski act for him at gunpoint; however, Herzog has repeatedly denied this claim during interviews, saying he only verbally threatened Kinski in

2592-401: The film a positive review, with an average rating of 9/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "A haunting journey of natural wonder and tangible danger, Aguirre transcends epic genre trappings and becomes mythological by its own right." J. Hoberman has written that Aguirre "is not just a great movie but an essential one ... Herzog's third feature ... is both a landmark film and

2664-495: The film creates a vision of madness and folly, counterpointed by the lush but unforgiving Amazonian jungle. Although loosely based on what is known of the historical Lope de Aguirre, Herzog acknowledged years after the film's release that its storyline is a work of fiction. Some of the people and situations may have been inspired by missionary Gaspar de Carvajal 's account of an earlier Amazonian expedition, although Carvajal never accompanied Aguirre on any of his expeditions. Aguirre

2736-426: The film fairly accurately incorporates some 16th-century events and historical personages into a fictional narrative. Herzog's screenplay merged two expeditions: one led by Gonzalo Pizarro in 1541, which resulted in the discovery by Europeans of the Amazon River by Francisco de Orellana , and another one that occurred in 1560. The expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro and his men left from the city of Quito and entered

2808-505: The film sets in several feet of water and destroying all the rafts built for the film. This flooding was immediately incorporated into the story, as a sequence including a flood and subsequent rebuilding of rafts was shot. The camera used to shoot the film was stolen by Herzog from the Munich Film School . Years later, Herzog recalled: It was a very simple 35mm camera, one I used on many other films, so I do not consider it

2880-673: The friar recorded the dates of the expedition as well as a large number of notes of ethnological interest such as the sizes and dispositions of the indigenous peoples which occupied the banks of the river, their tactics of war, rituals, customs, utensils, and the like. This work remained obscure for a long period, being published only in 1894 by the Chilean José Toribio Medina . Parts of Relación , in addition to interviews of Orellana and some of his men, were used by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo in his Historia general y natural de las Indias ("General and Natural History of

2952-482: The heat of the moment in a desperate attempt to keep him from leaving the set. This incident is parodied in the 2004 film Incident at Loch Ness , which Herzog co-wrote. The film was made for $ 370,000 (equivalent to $ 2,695,084 in 2023), with one-third of the budget going towards Kinski's salary. It was filmed on location in the Peruvian rainforest , Machu Picchu (the stone steps of Huayna Picchu ), and on

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3024-434: The jungle. Aguirre 's musical score was performed by Popol Vuh , a West German progressive / Krautrock band. The band was formed in 1969 by keyboardist Florian Fricke, who had known Herzog for several years prior to the formation of the band. He had appeared as an actor in the director's first full-length film, Signs of Life (1968), playing a pianist. Aguirre was only the first of many collaborations between

3096-453: The local people was consistent with the benevolence of his better-known brother Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas . This personality is at odds with the description in the film where Carvajal is portrayed as a cowardly priest who claimed that "the church was always on the side of the strong". The film's major characters, Aguirre, Ursúa, Don Fernando, Inez and Flores, were involved in the second expedition, which left Peru in 1560 to find

3168-416: The lower Amazon died as a result of these newly-introduced diseases. Werner Herzog 's 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God has an appearance of Gaspar de Carvajal (as played by actor Del Negro ) as a craven chaplain and chronicler of the mad descent of the Amazon by Lope de Aguirre . This expedition, which took place in 1561 (almost twenty years after that of Orellana), was the source of inspiration for

3240-413: The majority of indigenous people. In 1553 he was instituted as the prior of the convent of Huamanga and provincial of Tucumán. He brought a number of Dominicans to the province, with whose help he founded various reducciones de indios and nine Spanish municipalities. He was chosen to be provincial of Peru in 1557, dedicating two years to the organization of the province and the two following ones to

3312-444: The man in charge of the process; both absconded en route ". The English-language track was ultimately replaced by a higher-quality German-language version, which was dubbed after production was completed. According to Herzog, Kinski requested too much money for the dubbing session, and so his lines were performed by another actor. The low budget precluded the use of stunt men or elaborate special effects. Cinematography in many scenes

3384-464: The municipality of Salinas, Puerto Rico Aguirre Department , Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina Aguirre, Venezuela , a village in Carabobo state, Venezuela People [ edit ] Lope de Aguirre Other uses [ edit ] Aguirre (surname) BAP Aguirre , several Peruvian Navy ships commissioned between 1951 and 2005 See also [ edit ] Agirre ,

3456-454: The port and did not find the ships. We saw their buoys in the water, from which we realized that they had been lost, and we went along the coast to see if we could find signs of them. Since we found nothing, we went into the woods, and a quarter of a league into them we found one of the ship's boats in some trees. Gaspar de Carvajal De Carvajal was born in Trujillo . After entering

3528-433: The proper manner to portray Aguirre. Kinski wanted to play a "wild, ranting madman", but Herzog wanted a "quieter, more menacing" portrayal. In order to get the performance he desired, Herzog would deliberately infuriate Kinski before each shot and wait for the actor's anger to "burn itself out" before rolling the camera. On one occasion, irritated by the noise from a hut where members of the cast and crew were playing cards,

3600-443: The raft's privy. After Guzmán's death, Aguirre proclaims himself leader. Ursúa is then taken ashore and hanged in the jungle. The group attacks an indigenous village, where several soldiers are killed by spears and arrows. The distraught Inés walks into the jungle and disappears. On the raft, the group of slowly starving, feverish men begin disbelieving everything they see, even when shot at with arrows. The group stares in disbelief at

3672-467: The rebels arrived in Venezuela, government agents offered full pardons to Aguirre's men. All of them accepted the deal. Immediately prior to his arrest, Aguirre murdered his daughter Flores, who had remained by his side during the entire journey. He was then captured and dismembered. Other Spanish expeditions outside the Amazon influenced the story. The conversation in which the local inhabitants refuse

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3744-471: The role of Aguirre was Klaus Kinski. The two had met many years earlier when the then-struggling young actor rented a room in Herzog's family apartment, and Kinski's often terrifying antics during the three months he lived there left a lasting impression on the young Herzog. Years later, the director remembered the volatile actor and knew that he was the only possible man who could play Aguirre, and he sent Kinski

3816-570: The same flight. The film was produced in part by West German television station Hessischer Rundfunk , which televised the film on the same day it opened in theatres. Herzog has blamed this for the relatively poor commercial reception of the film in Germany. However, outside Germany the film became an "enormous cult favorite" in "such places as Mexico, Venezuela, and Algiers". The film had a theatrical run of fifteen months in Paris. Aguirre received

3888-631: The same poll, critic Nigel Andrews and director Santosh Sivan also placed it in their top ten list. Martin Scorsese included it on a list of "39 Essential Foreign Films for a Young Filmmaker". In 1999, Rolling Stone included the film on the magazine's "100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years" list. Aguirre was included in Time magazine's "All Time 100 Best Films", compiled by Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss . Entertainment Weekly named it

3960-426: The same time, and there is a keyboard on which you can play them like an organ so that [it will] sound just like a human choir but yet, at the same time, very artificial and really quite eerie." In 1975 Popol Vuh released an album entitled Aguirre . Although ostensibly a soundtrack album to Herzog's film, the six-track LP included only two songs ("Aguirre I (L'Acrime Di Rei)" and "Aguirre II") taken from Aguirre,

4032-443: The scouting team down the river, in the script, Pizarro mentions that in the course of the expedition Ursúa could possibly discover what happened to Francisco de Orellana 's expedition, which had vanished without a trace years before (see "Historical Accuracy" section). Later in the screenplay, Aguirre and his men find a boat and the long-dead remains of Orellana's soldiers. Further down the river, they discover another ship lodged in

4104-500: The screenplay "in a frenzy" in two-and-a-half days. Much of the script was written during a 200-mile (320 km) bus trip with Herzog's football team. His teammates got drunk after winning a game and one vomited on several pages of Herzog's manuscript, which he immediately threw out the window. Herzog claims that he cannot remember what he wrote on these pages. The screenplay was mostly shot as written, with only minor differences. In an early scene in which Pizarro instructs Ursúa to lead

4176-473: The title role of Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre , who leads a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado . The accompanying soundtrack was composed and performed by kosmische musik band Popol Vuh . The film is an international co-production between West Germany and Mexico. Using a minimalist approach to story and dialogue,

4248-450: The treetops. In the screenplay, Aguirre and others explore the boat but find no sign of Orellana or his men. Herzog ultimately eliminated any such references to Orellana's expedition from the film. The sequence with the boat caught in the upper branches of a tree remains, but as filmed it seems to be simply a hallucinatory vision. The finale is significantly different from Herzog's original script. The director recalled, "I only remember that

4320-519: The truest sense of the word: it's hard not to find the music's awe-inspiring, overwhelming beauty simultaneously unsettling. The power of the legendary opening sequence of Herzog's film ... owes as much to Popol Vuh's music as it does to the director's mise-en-scène ." Herzog explained how the choir-like sound was created: "We used a strange instrument, which we called a 'choir-organ.' It has inside it three dozen different tapes running parallel to each other in loops. ... All these tapes are running at

4392-489: The visiting of the most remote territories and the founding of new convents. There is evidence of a letter written by Carvajal to the king, informing him of the abuses that were being committed against the Indians in the mines of Peru, and asking for his intervention on their behalf. This shows a general attitude towards the Indians consistent with the doctrine of his brother Dominican Bartolomé de las Casas . In 1565 Carvajal

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4464-411: The word of God. Accompanying the expedition, against Pizarro's better judgment, are Ursúa's mistress, Doña Inés, and Aguirre's teenage daughter Flores. One of the four rafts gets caught in an eddy while traveling through river rapids, and the others are unable to help free it. That night, gunfire erupts on the trapped raft; in the morning, the men on board are found dead, with three missing. Ursúa wants

4536-523: Was "the influence Malick's over-inflated New World can't shake." Channel 4 opined "This is an astonishing, deceptively simple, pocket-sized epic whose influence, in terms of both style and narrative, is seen in films as diverse as Apocalypse Now , The Mission , Predator , and The Blair Witch Project (1999)." Although plot details and many of the characters in Aguirre come directly from Herzog's own imagination, historians have pointed out that

4608-468: Was a very strong influence. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it." Several critics have noted that Aguirre appears to have had a direct influence on several other films. Martin Rubin has written that "[a]mong the films strongly influenced by Aguirre are Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Terrence Malick 's The New World (2005)". J. Hoberman agreed, noting that Herzog's " sui generis Amazon fever dream"

4680-632: Was chosen as a representative of his province before the Spanish court and to the Pope, but it is likely that he never crossed the ocean. He died in Lima in 1584. Not knowing it, the expedition of Gaspar de Carvajal carried diseases of the Old World, particularly smallpox , malaria and yellow fever into the deep areas of the Amazon. "One writer ( Antonio Vieira , 1842) estimated that in the 37 years between 1615 and 1652, more than two million Indians living on

4752-528: Was chosen to arbitrate between the viceroy , Blasco Núñez Vela , and the auditors of the Real Audiencia in 1544. Unfortunately, the mediation seems to have been unfruitful. After the pacification of Peru, he was sent by his superiors as a missionary to Tucumán , now in Argentina, being named the protector of the Indians in that area. He worked for years in the region, achieving the conversion of

4824-407: Was done in order to accommodate the inclement weather and terrain of the region, with the camera lens often being obscured by rainwater and mud when the cast moved through thicker regions of the jungle. The cast and crew climbed up mountains, experienced the adverse conditions of the jungle, and rode Amazonian river rapids on rafts built by locals. At one point, a storm caused a river to flood, covering

4896-470: Was eventually murdered when he questioned Aguirre's scheme of sailing to the Atlantic, conquering Panama, crossing the isthmus and invading Peru. Many others who attempted to rebel against Aguirre were also killed. The surviving soldiers conquered Isla Margarita off the coast of Venezuela and made preparations to attack the mainland. By that time, Spanish authorities had learned of Aguirre's plans. When

4968-552: Was location scouting for Aguirre in Peru, his reservation on LANSA Flight 508 was canceled due to a last minute change in itinerary. During this flight, the airplane disintegrated in mid-air after a lightning strike and crashed in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest in 1971, killing 91 people: all on board except 17-year-old  Juliane Koepcke . Herzog was inspired to make the 1998 documentary film Wings of Hope about Koepcke's survival, since he had narrowly avoided taking

5040-515: Was the first of five collaborations between Herzog and Kinski. They had differing views as to how the role should be played, and they clashed throughout filming; Kinski's rage terrorized both the crew and the locals who were assisting the production. Shooting took place entirely on location, and was fraught with difficulties. Filming took place in the Peruvian rainforest on the Amazon River during an arduous five-week period, shooting on tributaries of

5112-596: Was thought that the acidic soils of Amazonia could not support the level of agriculture necessary to sustain such a civilization. His writings were largely dismissed as fabrications and propaganda. However, research by Prümers et al., published in Nature (2022) shows that his reporting is very likely to be correct. Upon his return to Peru, Carvajal was chosen as subprior of the Convent of San Rosario in Lima . In this post, he

5184-521: Was to pay the other half upon receipt. The trappers sold the monkeys to someone in Los Angeles or Miami, and Herzog came to the airport just as the monkeys were being loaded to be shipped out of the country. He pretended to be a veterinarian and claimed that the monkeys needed vaccinations before leaving the country. Abashed, the handlers handed the monkeys over to Herzog, who used them in the shot they were required for, then released them afterwards into

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