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Fitzcarraldo

7.6

Released March 02, 1982Runtime 2h 37min

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.

Genres

Drama

Adventure

Production Companies

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Pro-ject Filmproduktion

ZDF

Wildlife Films Peru

Filmverlag der Autoren

Production Countries

Germany

Peru

Finances

Budget: $7,362,000
Revenue: $0
Profit/Loss: $0

Stream

Rent

Buy

Videos

Cast

Klaus KinskiFitzcarraldo

Claudia CardinaleMolly

José LewgoyDon Aquilino

Miguel Ángel FuentesCholo

Paul HittscherOrinoco Paul

Huerequeque Enrique BohórquezHuerequeque

Grande OteloStation Master

Peter BerlingOpera Manager

David Pérez EspinosaCampa Chief

Milton NascimentoOpera House Blackman

Ruy PolanahRubber Baron

Salvador GodínezOld Missionary

Dieter MilzYoung Missionary

William L. RoseNotary

Leoncio Bueno

Veriano LuchettiOpera 'Ernani' - Ernani (voice)

Costante MoretOpera 'Ernani' - Ernani

Dimiter PetkovOpera 'Ernani' - Silva

Mietta SigheleOpera 'Ernani' - Elvira (voice)

Lourdes MagalhãesOpera 'Ernani' - Orchestra Pit Singer

Jean-Claude DreyfusOpera 'Ernani' - Sarah Bernhardt

Isabel Jiménez de CisnerosOpera 'I puritani' - Doña Elvira

Liborio SimonellaOpera 'I puritani' - Arturo

Jesus GoiriOpera 'I puritani' - Giorgio

Christian MantillaOpera 'I puritani' - Walton

Crew

Werner HerzogDirector

Jorge VignatiAssistant Director

Werner HerzogScreenplay

Werner HerzogProducer

Walter SaxerExecutive Producer

Lucki StipetićProducer

Renzo RosselliniAssociate Producer

George SluizerProduction Manager

Gustavo Cerff ArbulúProduction Assistant

Nancy RíosProduction Secretary

Claire AndréProduction Secretary

Popol VuhOriginal Music Composer

Thomas MauchDirector of Photography

Beate Mainka-JellinghausEditor

Beat PresserStill Photographer

Ulrich BergfelderProduction Design

Henning von GierkeProduction Design

Juarez Dagoberto CostaSound

Zezé d'AliceSound

Gisela StorchCostume Designer

Gloria FavaMakeup Designer

Gloria FavaHair Designer

Stefano FavaMakeup Designer

Stefano FavaHair Designer

Miguel VázquezSpecial Effects

Raimund WirnerGaffer

Hans-Peter VogtGaffer

Beat PresserAssistant Camera

José Koechlin von SteinThanks

Les BlankThanks

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Reviews

_**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 c...

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...