Cobra Verde -

The film takes a cynical, "one-dimensional" look at colonialism, suggesting that all participants in the slave trade were complicit and equally "mad".

The film won several Bavarian Film Awards in 1988, including Best Production for Herzog and Lucki Stipetic. Cobra Verde

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. The film takes a cynical, "one-dimensional" look at

Da Silva eventually aligns with the king's rebellious brother, training a legendary 1,000-strong army of topless female Amazon warriors to overthrow the mad ruler. Da Silva eventually aligns with the king's rebellious

When da Silva impregnates all three of the baron’s daughters, the enraged landowner sends him on a suicide mission to West Africa to reopen the prohibited slave trade in the Kingdom of Dahomey.

His "empire" crumbles when Brazil finally abolishes slavery in 1888, leaving him a broken, exhausted man stranded on the African coast. Production and Volatility