FILM: Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde - Green Snake - is an enterprising outlaw (he murdered his previous boss when he discovered he was being financially exploited). He is taken in by a baron who owns a sugar plantation run by slaves. After impregnating the Baron's three daughters, he is sent to West Africa where he is to restart the slave trade.
An African king wants him killed and captures him. The king's nephew rescues him from capture and he is given an army of female warriors by who he trains to fight in order to overtake a king.
Having won the fight, the King's nephew turns on Cobra Verde who tries and fails to escape into the ocean on a large canoe.

This is one film in which Klaus Kinski doesn't play a mad man!
Characteristically for Herzog, the film doesn't involve a lot of dialogue, more an in depth look into the internal struggles of one character.

Do we like Cobra Verde? He is a murderer and a slave trader, but he's not nasty to his slaves like the other traders - he seems a more moral man than many of the other characters - perhaps a misunderstood man? He does like to disobey orders and refuses to pander to those with a higher station to him - qualities I tend to like in a character.
The film leaves one with their own individual opinion of the man, Cobra Verde, since it doesn't give it's own moral stance of the situation - it just shows the happenings.
In this way, the film is brilliantly a-moral: it doesn't have an opinion; that is left for the viewer.