Scenarios: Aguirre, the Wrath of God / Every Man for Himself and God Against All / Land of Silence and Darkness / Fitzcarraldo

244 Pages·2017·4.356 MB·English

by  Werner Herzog, Martje Herzog, Alan Greenberg

Scenarios
Also by Werner Herzog
Published by the University of Minnesota Press
Of Walking in Ice
Scenarios
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Land of Silence and Darkness
Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog
Translated by
Martje Herzog and Alan Greenberg
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis | London
Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, and Land
of Silence and Darkness originally published in Germany as Drehbücher II by Carl
Hanser Verlag. Copyright 1979 by Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich. English translation
originally published in the United States by Tanam Press, 1980.
Fitzcarraldo originally published in Germany by Carl Hanser Verlag. Copyright
1982 by Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich. English translation originally published in
the United States by Fjord Press, 1982.
First University of Minnesota Press edition, 2017
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Contents
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
61
Land of Silence and Darkness
117
Fitzcarraldo
133
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The texts in this volume have remained completely unchanged,
in the same shape they were before shooting started. The films
themselves, as one can see, followed a very different evolution.
There was no screenplay for Land of Silence and Darkness.
The film has but one element, Fini Straubinger, the principal
character. So in this case, there is a transcript of the spoken dia-
logue from the film here.
This volume is dedicated to Fini Straubinger.
W.H.
Munich, 1977

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
CHARACTERS
Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Francisco Pizarro
Lope de Aguirre, “The Wrath of God”
Pedro de Ursua, a Spanish nobleman
Inez de Atienza, Ursua’s mistress
Fernando de Guzman, “Emperor of Peru”
Flores, daughter of Aguirre
Juan de Arnalte, young Hidalgo
Gaspar de Carvajal, a Dominican monk
Chimalpahin, an Indian nobleman, called Baltasar
Diego Bermudez, Sebastian de Fuenterrabia, and
Gustavo Perucho, confidants of Aguirre
DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS
Gonzalo Pizarro
Tall, incredibly lean, his cheeks suggesting that he suffers from
some disease of the stomach. Unscrupulous and, like his brother
Francisco Pizarro, the typical highly intelligent illiterate.
Lope de Aguirre
He calls himself either “The Great Betrayer” or “The Wrath of
God.” Fanatical, possessed, and with limitless ambition, but ex-
tremely methodical in his actions. There is a likeness between his
type and late photographs of Kafka, with a black glimmer in the
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