Aguirre, the Wrath of God
A Spanish expedition crossing the Andes in 1560 sends a small party ahead by raft to find El Dorado, and the second-in-command takes the raft by mutiny. He installs a puppet emperor, declares himself the wrath of God, and drives the party downriver as fever, hunger and unseen arrows work on it. A raft of madmen drifting toward El Dorado.
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