Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo () is a 1982 epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irish would-be rubber baron known in Peru as "Fitzcarraldo", who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin, with the ultimate goal of using the wealth to build an opera house in the area. The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once had a disassembled steamboat transported over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald by natives.

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Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 drama and adventure film directed, written, and produced by Werner Herzog. The cast includes Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, and Grande Otelo. Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus served as the film editor, while Florian Fricke composed the music. The production was a collaboration between Germany and Peru, with ZDF listed as a production company alongside Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Wildlife Films Peru, and Filmverlag der Autoren.

The narrative is set in the jungle environments of Brazil and Peru, specifically referencing the Ucayali River and Pachitea River. Filming took place in Peru. The film was shot on 35 mm film and features dialogue in German, Spanish, English, and Asháninka. Its runtime is listed as 157 or 158 minutes. The work has been distributed via Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and iTunes.

Audience reception includes a 7.9 rating on IMDb based on 43,100 votes, a 7.621 average from 875 votes on TMDb, and review scores of 7.3/10 and 75%. The film’s tagline is "Dare to dream the impossible."

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Film · TMDB

7.6

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Released: 1982-03-02157 minDir: Werner HerzogDrama, AdventureBudget: $7.4M

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