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Movies About the Inca Empire

By moviejourneys On March 22, 2014 · Add Comment · In Peru-Inca, Southern Americas
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) Because this film was made by seemingly competent people, it would qualify as one of the least successful translations from stage to film that I have ever seen.  Robert Shaw stars as Pizarro, Christopher Plummer is Atahualpa, and Leonard Whiting (Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film) is the [...]
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Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) – Herzog

By moviejourneys On March 22, 2014 · Add Comment · In Peru-Inca, Southern Americas
This Werner Herzog film offers the oddly resonant experience of Spanish Conquistadors speaking German (with English subtitles).  The title name is pronounced Ah-gear-ay, according to Herzog.  A print legend establishes that late in 1560, Gonzalo Pizarro (half-brother to the conqueror of the Inca Empire) set off on an expedition through the Peruvian Sierras in search [...]
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