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"Het levensverhaal van de bandiet Cobra Verde die het van arme boer tot slavenhandelaar brengt en hier veel geld mee verdient."
"Fin du 19e siècle. Francisco Manoel da Silva, paysan brésilien ruiné, est engagé par un planteur pour surveiller ses esclaves noirs. Francisco, qui se fait appeler "Cobra Verde" met enceintes successivement les 3 filles du planteur. Ce dernier se débarrasse de lui en l'envoyant au Dahomey dans l'espoir qu'il se fera massacrer là-bas. Cobra Verde réussit à capter la confiance du roi et devient son conseiller pour la traite des Noirs vers le Brésil. En 1888, l'esclavage aboli, il devient inutile et périt noyé."
"Het levensverhaal van de bandiet Cobra Verde die het van arme boer, goudzoeker tot slavenhandelaar brengt en hier veel geld mee verdient."
"A 19th-century Brazilian rancher, born Francisco Manoel da Silva, turns to banditry after being driven from his land by drought and famine. As Cobra Verde, he is a solitary, vengeful figure, roaming the dusty backlands, shooting, drinking and womanizing. Hired as an overseer by a decadent sugar planter, he runs into trouble when his employer's three daughters wind up pregnant. The local bigwigs ship da Silva off to Africa to administer the faltering slave trade, assuming he will not come back alive. He arrives to find the slavers' garrison deserted, and the King, apparently, gone mad. Cobra Verde however, is a special kind of diplomat, and before long he is training an army of amazons to launch a rebellion against the King."
"Ein brasilianischer Bandit, der auf den glanzvollen Namen Francisco Manoel da Silva hört, von allen aber nur Cobra Verde genannt wird, schwängert die drei Töchtern eines Plantagenbesitzers, dessen Sklaven er beaufsichtigt. Daraufhin wird er nach Afrika geschickt, um neue Sklaven einzukaufen. Die Vermutung, der unbeugsame Outlaw werde in Afrika untergehen, erweist sich jedoch als falsch. Der brutale und kompromissvolle Cobra Verde zettelt mit Hilfe eines Amazonenheers eine Revolution an."
"Francisco Manoel da Silva, detto Cobra verde, è un avventuriero brasiliano trafficante di schiavi che, nel secolo scorso, diventa vicerè di Dahomey, ma quando la sua merce non avrà più valore perderà ogni potere e finirà annegato cercando la fuga. (Mereghetti)."@it
"Francisco Manoel De Silva detto Cobra Verde, è un avventuriero brasiliano trafficante di schavi che, nel secolo scorso, diventa vicerè del Dahomey, ma quando la sua merce non avrà più valore perderà ogni potere e finirà annegato cercando la fuga."@it
"Cobra Verde (Manoel da Silva), a barefoot Brazilian outlaw and slave trader, aspires to be a king in Africa."
""Director Werner Herzog, as usual, has spared no one - especially himself - in bringing this story of 19th-century African slave trading to the screen. Klaus Kinski plays an enterprising young Brazilian who after impregnating the three daughters of his plantation-owning employer, is sent to West Africa to round up slaves. Kinski goes to great lengths to befriend the very people he hopes to enslave and he eventually manages to overthrow a mad monarch and set himself up as king. As the years pass, Kinski grows wealthy - and careless. However, despite enslaving the tribe, he does show some signs of humanitarian benevolence. Though the title translates literally as Green Cobra, Cobra Verde was released in the U.S. as Slave Coast.""
"Set in the early nineteenth century, Cobra Verde moves from Brazil to Dahomey in West Africa. Francisco Manoel de Silva, an historical figure at the centre of the novel, is amalgamated with that of the bandit Cobra Verde to serve Herzog's private mythologising. But Verde is not as distinctly drawn as the obsessive characters played by Klaus Kinski in Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo, the Herzog films with which Cobra Verde can be most directly compared. Loosely improvised and more of 'a happening', Cobra Verde has some extraordinary scenes and magnificent images. The historical issues of slavery and colonialism are typically (for Herzog) subsumed in a mystico-spiritual game."
"Un traficante de esclavos del siglo XIX conocido como cobra verde, se traslada del Brasil al África para trabajar como mercenario de una tribu en su lucha contra su rey."
"Manoel Garcia Da Silva commette un delitto e scappa. Fa il sorvegliante di schiavi a Salvador de Bahia, organizza in Africa il traffico dei medesimi. Imprigionato e torturato, diventa viceré di un regno africano grazie a un colpo di Stato. Trionfo di breve durata. (Mymovies)."
"Francisco Manoel da Silva, 19th century, gun-toting Brazilian bandit known as the Cobra Verde, is unknowingly hired by the owner of a sugar plantation to keep his slaves in check, but instead, the Cobra manages to sleep with the landowner's daughters and impregnate them. In revenge, the owner sends the Cobra on a dangerous mission to sail to the West coast of Africa and reopen the slave trade, and the Cobra wages war with a local tribal king."
"Set in the early nineteenth century, 'Cobra Verde' moves from Brazil to Dahomey in West Africa. Francisco Manoel de Silva, an historical figure at the centre of the novel, is amalgamated with that of the bandit, Cobra Verde, to serve Herzog's private mythologising. But Verde is not as distinctly drawn as the obsessive characters played by Klaus Kinski in Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo, the Herzog films with which Cobra Verde can be most directly compared. Loosely improvised and more of 'a happening', Cobra Verde has some extraordinary scenes and magnificent images. The historical issues of slavery and colonialism are typically (for Herzog) subsumed in a mystico-spiritual game."
"Francisco Manoel da Silva, 19th century, gun-toting Brazilian bandit known as the Cobra Verde, is unknowingly hired by the owner of a sugar plantation to keep his slaves in check, but instead, the Cobra manages to sleep with the landowner's daughters and impregnate them. In revenge, the owner sends the Cobra on a dangerous mission to sail to the West coast of Africa and reopen the slave trade, and the Cobra wages war with a local tribal king."@en
"Historia de un aventurero traficante de esclavos, un hombre consumido por sus sueños y destrozado por las conspiraciones del mundo en que vive."
"In their final collaboration, Werner Herzog directs Klaus Kinski in the remarkable tale of Francisco Manoel da Silva, the flamboyant 19th century Brazilian bandit known as Cobra Verde. When owner of a sugar plantation unknowingly hires the barefoot, gun-toting thief to keep his slaves in check, he gets more than he bargained for as Cobra Verde, in short order, impregnates all of his boss's daughters. In revenge, he is sent on an impossible and deadly mission to sail to the West Coast of Africa and re-open the slave trade. Not only does Cobra Verde succeed at this he goes on to lead an unstoppable army of women in a savage war against the local king! Filmed on location with a cast of hundreds, Cobra Verde is a tale of adventure, greed and betrayal. It's the story of two worlds in collision, and of the man who was trapped between them."
"Francisco Manoel De Silva detto Cobra Verde, è un avventuriero brasiliano trafficante di schiavi, che nel secolo scorso, diventa vicerè del Dahomey, ma quando la sua merce non avrà più valore perderà ogni potere e finirà annegato cercando la fuga."
"He has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare go, and told stories in ways no one had ever considered. This masterpiece illustrates why Werner Hertzog is the most daring, visionary, and dangerous filmmaker of our lifetime. The director that both Milos Forman and Francois Truffaut have called 'the greatest filmmaker alive today.'"