Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1982-03-02) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award4 wins & 4 nominations total |
| Screen: | Werner Herzog |
| Productions: | Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, ZDF, Wildlife Films Peru, Filmverlag der Autoren |
| Production Countries: | Germany, Peru |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Deutsch, Italiano, Español |
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Crews
- 20552: Popol Vuh - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 49497: Walter Saxer - Executive Producer - Production
- 6818: Werner Herzog - Director - Directing
- 6818: Werner Herzog - Producer - Production
- 27042: Lucki Stipetić - Producer - Production
- 20553: Thomas Mauch - Director of Photography - Camera
- 20554: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus - Editor - Editing
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_**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 ....
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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 t ....
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