Fitzcarraldo (1982)

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 that to make his dream a reality he needs to make a killing in the rubber business. In order to become a successful rubber baron, Fitzcarraldo hatches an elaborate plan that calls for a particularly impressive feat -- bringing a massive boat over a mountain with the help of a band of natives.

Werner Herzog - Best Director: Cannes Film Festival 1982

"Herzog charts an ironically circular course around an indulged, benevolent Aguirre; perversely illuminates colonialism with surrealism; and demonstrates once again in his always suspect yet somehow irresistible way that 'only dreamers move mountains'." - Time Out

"As a document of a quest and a dream, and as the record of man's audacity and foolish, visionary heroism, there has never been another movie like it." - Roger Ebert

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Running time: 158 min

Country: West Germany, Peru

Year: 1982

Language: German, Spanish, English, Shuar, Italian

Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy

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