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Cobra Verde was based on Bruce Chatwin's 1980 novel The Viceroy of Ouidah, which was itself based on the Brazilian slave trader Francisco Félix de Sousa and his role in helping King Ghezo overthrow his brother Adandozan as King of Dahomey with the help of Ghezo's Dahomey Amazons.
Q: Is “Cobra Verde” based on a true story? A: Yes, “Cobra Verde” is based on the novel “The Viceroy of Ouidah” by Bruce Chatwin, which is inspired by the life of Francisco Félix de Souza, a Brazilian slave trader who operated in West Africa in the early 19th century.
May 4, 2007 · This fifth and final movie collaboration between Kinski and Herzog is based on a real-life figure — Francisco Manoel da Silva, better known as Cobra Verde. A bandit who pretty much terrorized the rich in Brazil during the 19th century, da Silva came to a rather ignominious end in Africa.
Dec 3, 1987 · With Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile. During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Werner Herzog
- 1987-12-03
Mar 23, 2007 · Based on a novel by Bruce Chatwin, “Cobra Verde” has some of the political feverishness of Gillo Pontecorvo’s “Burn!,” in which Marlon Brando played an 19th-century British adventurer messing...
- Werner Herzog
Based on Bruce Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, Cobra Verde is a modern Heart of Darkness realized with Herzog's usual commitment.
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- Drama
Based on the Bruce Chatwin novel The Viceroy of Ouidah, Cobra Verde is the story of a fierce nineteenth-century Brazilian bandit, known as "Cobra Verde" (green snake), who is punished by being sent to Africa to re-establish the slave trade.
