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Studio:Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Director:Werner Herzog
Screenwriter:Werner Herzog
Cinematography:Thomas Mauch
Editor:Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Production:Werner Herzog
Music:Popol Vuh
Cast:Klaus Kinski (Don Lope de Aguirre)
 Helena Rojo (Inez)
 Del Negro (Brother Gaspar de Carvajal)
 Ruy Guerra (Don Pedro de Ursua)
 Peter Berling (Don Fernando de Guzman)
 Cecilia Rivera (Flores)
 Daniel Ades (Perucho)
 Edward Roland (Okello)
 Armando Polanah (Armando)
 Alejandro Repulles (Gonzalo Pizarro)
 
Awards:Best Foreign Film, Critics Award, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, 1976
Outstanding Individual Achievement:Cinematography, Thomas Mauch, German Film Awards, 1973
  Best Cinematography, Thomas Mauch, National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA, 1977.
Nominated:Best Foreign Film, César Awards, France, 1976.
 Color, 93 minutes.