The story follows Francisco Manoel da Silva, a Brazilian rancher-turned-outlaw known as "Cobra Verde." After a life of wandering and crime, he is hired by a sugar baron to supervise plantation slaves.
Cobra Verde (1987) is a haunting, existential drama that marks the final and most volatile collaboration between visionary director Werner Herzog and his "best fiend," the mercurial actor Klaus Kinski . Based on Bruce Chatwin’s 1980 novel The Viceroy of Ouidah , the film is a fictionalized account of the real-life Brazilian slave trader Francisco Félix de Sousa . Plot and Narrative Cobra Verde
Kinski’s legendary tantrums peaked during this shoot. His verbal abuse was so severe that the film's original cinematographer, Thomas Mauch , walked off the project and had to be replaced. The story follows Francisco Manoel da Silva, a
Against all odds, da Silva survives. He navigates the court of a mad monarch, King Bossa Ahadee, who rules with a mixture of cruelty and bizarre rituals. He navigates the court of a mad monarch,