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Cobra Verde

1987

A fearsome Brazilian outlaw is sent on what is meant to be a doomed errand — to reopen a trade with the West African kingdom of Dahomey — and instead entangles himself in its violent court intrigues. Werner Herzog's fevered epic starring Klaus Kinski.

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