PLOT: The final film in the legendary collaboration between director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski, COBRA VERDE–based on a novel by Bruce Chatwin–tells the story of Francisco Manoel da Silva, a poor farmer who raises himself to fame and notoriety as the bandit “Cobra Verde.” The film begins with a blind minstrel beginning to sing the tale of the famed bandit. Da Silva is shown kneeling before a cross; surrounding him is a dead, parched landscape. It’s only because I read a synopsis of the film that I know that this is supposed to be his land, destroyed by
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