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Fitzcarraldo (/fɪtskə'raldo/) is a 1982 West German epic adventure - drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber ...
Mar 26, 2023 · The brainchild of cinema’s most renegade filmmaker, Fitzcarraldo was intended to be a modern epic unlike anything that had previously been attempted… and unlike most directors who proclaim such...
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Jan 18, 2021 · Fitzcarraldo is arguably the best movie directed by Werner Herzog, and part of the reason why is because of the way the movie looks. It’s full of panoramic vistas of Peru and the jungle, and it wouldn’t look that good if it wasn’t for the work of cinematographer Thomas Mauch.
Fitzcarraldo: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher. The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Werner Herzog
- 1982-10-10
Aug 28, 2005 · “Fitzcarraldo” opens on the note of madness, which it will sustain. Out of the dark void of the Amazon comes a boat, its motor dead, the shock-haired Kinski furiously rowing at the prow, while his mistress (Claudia Cardinale) watches anxiously behind him. They are late for the opera.
Sep 8, 2023 · The ordeal of shooting Fitzcarraldo, which lasted from 1979 to 1981, has become a legend in itself, recorded by the documentary maker Les Blank in his Burden Of Dreams and by Herzog in his published journal-memoir Conquest Of The Useless.
The movie is the story of a dreamer named Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose name has been simplified to “Fitzcarraldo” by the Indians and Spanish who inhabit his godforsaken corner of South America. He loves opera.
