“Dare to dream the impossible.”
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.
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Lucki Stipetić
Werner Herzog
Thomas Mauch
Popol Vuh
Klaus Kinski
Fitzcarraldo
Claudia Cardinale
Molly
José Lewgoy
Don Aquilino
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Cholo
Paul Hittscher
Orinoco Paul
Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
Huerequeque
Grande Otelo
Station Master
Peter Berling
Opera Manager
David Pérez Espinosa
Campa Chief
Milton Nascimento
Opera House Blackman
Ruy Polanah
Rubber Baron
Salvador Godínez
Old Missionary
... and 13 more
Wuchak
_**Apocalypse Now in the Amazon headwaters**_ Called Fitzcarraldo by the Indians, an Irishman (Klaus Kinski) living in Iquitos, Peru, dreams of bringing Grand Opera to the jungle city in the Amazon Basin. It’s the early 1900s and there’s a rubber boom. To fund his dream he decides to exploit a co...
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Klaus Kinski is great as the eponymous, slightly maniacal, opera lover who decides that his love of Verdi, Bellini and Puccini needs to be shared with his mid-jungle community. He realises that to do that, he must have cash - and that's only to be found if he can manage to tap into the rubber trees ...
Fitzcarraldo (1982) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Trailer • YouTube
Mark Kermode reviews Fitzcarraldo (1981) | BFI Player
Featurette • YouTube
Trailer
Trailer • YouTube
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