Herzog worked with Kinski five times, though their relationship was notoriously difficult. This film, the story of a deranged conquistador’s quest for El Dorado, marks the beginning of a nearly two-decade collaboration of these film legends. In German with English subtitles.

 “It looks more magnificent and mad than ever, one of the great folies de grandeur of 1970s cinema, an expeditionary Conradian nightmare like Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’.”

       – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian