Mexico
The Aztec Account of the Conquest [SCREENPLAY]
$33.22
- Paperback
156 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2024
Summary
Written more than thirty years ago, Werner Herzog’s Mexico screenplay - an epic, stylized dramatisation of the conquest of the Aztec empire by Hernán Cortes and his army in 1521 - is destined to remain unfilmed. But now it can be read.
An essential companion piece to the filmmaker’s earlier, celebrated South American adventures, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) and Fitzcarraldo (1982), Mexico pits Cortes, “a genius of deception and intrigue,” agains…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781942782698 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1942782691 |
| Author: | Werner Herzog |
| Publisher: | Sticking Place Books |
| Imprint: | Sticking Place Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 156 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 127mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“What a text… Mexico fully evokes an entire civilisation, as well as the bonkers movie that might have been.” - Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942, and made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written and directed more than sixty fiction and documentary films, including AGUIRRE, NOSFERATU, FITZCARRALDO, LESSONS OF DARKNESS, LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY, MY BEST FIEND, GRIZZLY MAN and ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD. He has published more than a dozen books of prose and directed as many operas.
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