Starring: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile, Peter Berling

Based on the best-selling novel "The Viceroy of Ouidah" by Bruce Chatwin, the film tells the fascinating story of Francisco Manoel da Silva - they called him Cobra Verde...

German, English, French, Spanish, Lat. Am. Spanish, Italian
110 minutes, 35 mm, colour
1987


CREW

Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetic
Production Manager: Walter Saxer, Salvatore Basile
Director of Photography: Victor Ruzicka
Editor: Maximiliane Mainka
Sound Editor: Friedrich M. Dosch, Hans Zeiler
Mixer: Milan Bor
Set Designer: Ulrich Bergfelder
Costume Designer: Gisela Storch
2nd Camera Unit: Jorge Ruiz, William Sefa
Sound Engineer: Haymo Henry Heyder
Make-up, Hair: Berthold Sack
Props: Bernd Grotzke
Light Designer: Martin Gerbl
Assistant Director: Christine Ebenberger
Assistant Camera: Hermann Fahr
Assistant Editor: Rainer Standke
Assistant Set: Dr. Fernando Umaña (Columbia), Ina Lüders, Antonio Jordao Gomes da Costa (Ghana)
Assistant Costumes: Silvia Grabowski
Assistant Sound: Rudolf Hellwig
Continuity: Anja Schmidt-Zäringer
Still Photographer: Beat Presser


CAST

Francisco Manoel da Silva: Klaus Kinski
Taparica: King Ampaw
Don Octavio Coutinho: José Lewgoy
Captain Fraternidade: Salvatore Basile
Bernabo: Peter Berling
Euclides: Gillermo Coronel
Bossa Ahadee: His Royal Highness Nana agyefi Kwame II of Nsein
Dona Epiphania: Yolanda Garcia
Yovogan: Nana Fedu Abodo
Bakoko: Kofi Yerenkyi
Kankpé: Kwesi Fase
Captain Pedro Vicente: Benito Stefanelli
Messenger of Bossa: Ahadee Kofi Bryan
Governor: Carlos Mayolo
Singing Girls: Zigi Cultural Troupe HO, Ziavi