Fitzcarraldo
1982, Film, 158 min, Adventure, Drama, Music, German, Germany, MoviePedia score 76
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.
Directed by Werner Herzog
Cast
- Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo'
- Claudia Cardinale as Molly
- José Lewgoy as Don Aquilino
- Miguel Ángel Fuentes as Cholo
- Paul Hittscher as Captain (Orinoco Paul)
- Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez as Huerequeque (The Cook)
- Grande Otelo as Station master
- Peter Berling as Opera Manager
- David Pérez Espinosa as Rio Tambo Indian Chief
- Milton Nascimento as Black Man At Opera House
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