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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 a steep hill to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin.
Oct 10, 1982 · A film by Werner Herzog about a man who wants to build an opera house in the jungle. Starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, and featuring opera, riverboats, and native conflicts.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Werner Herzog
- 1982-10-10
Werner Herzog 's "Fitzcarraldo" is one of the great visions of the cinema, and one of the great follies. One would not have been possible without the other. This is a movie about an opera-loving madman who is determined to drag a boat overland from one river system to another. In making the film, Herzog was determined to actually do that, which ...
Opera-loving European Brian Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) lives in a small Peruvian city. Better known as Fitzcarraldo, this foreigner is obsessed with building an opera house in his town and decides ...
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- Werner Herzog
- PG
- Klaus Kinski
Directed by Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale and José Lewgoy.Fitzcarraldo Blu-ray : https://amzn.to/41OJCFUWatch Fitzcarraldo : https://am...
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Fitzcarraldo. Werner Herzog 's "Fitzcarraldo"is a movie in the great tradition of grandiose cinematic visions. Like Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" or Kubrick's " 2001: A Space Odyssey ," it is a quest film in which the hero's quest is scarcely more mad than the filmmaker's. Movies like this exist on a plane apart from ordinary films.
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Synopsis. Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), called Fitzcarraldo by the local natives in the South American rubber capital where he lives, has a dream to create an exotic opera house so that the music of Caruso, and Pucinni, and Wagner can be brought to the wilderness. As he and his girlfriend Molly (Claudia Cardinale), the madam of the ...
