Kinski’s legendary tantrums peaked during this shoot. His verbal abuse was so severe that the film's original cinematographer, Thomas Mauch , walked off the project and had to be replaced.
When da Silva impregnates all three of the baron’s daughters, the enraged landowner sends him on a suicide mission to West Africa to reopen the prohibited slave trade in the Kingdom of Dahomey. Cobra Verde
The film won several Bavarian Film Awards in 1988, including Best Production for Herzog and Lucki Stipetic. Kinski’s legendary tantrums peaked during this shoot