Notoriously eccentric actor Klaus Kinski explores the heart of darkness in this brutal, surreal 19th-century epic, which begins in the hellish gold mines of Brazil and ends in West Africa, where slave traders purchase their human cargo. Inveterate reprobate Francisco Manoel da Silva (Kinski) reinvents himself repeatedly as he lies, cheats, steals and dishonors his way to wealth and madness. Jose Lewgoy, King Ampaw, Salvatore Basile.