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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Directed by Werner Herzog

Adventure | Drama | Music

Most recently watched by BTSjunkie, sleestakk

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.

Rated PG | Length 157 minutes

Actors

Klaus Kinski | Claudia Cardinale | José Lewgoy | Miguel Ángel Fuentes | Paul Hittscher | Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez | Grande Otelo | Peter Berling | David Pérez Espinosa | Milton Nascimento | Ruy Polanah | Salvador Godínez | Dieter Milz | William L. Rose | Leoncio Bueno | Veriano Luchetti | Costante Moret | Dimiter Petkov | Mietta Sighele | Lourdes Magalhães | Jean-Claude Dreyfus | Isabel Jiménez de Cisneros | Liborio Simonella | Jesus Goiri | Christian Mantilla

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

And now for something completely different for the day. I’ve heard about this movie for so long that the watching of it didn’t quite live up to the hype. My fault for letting false expectations take hold of me, not anyone else’s.

That said, this is really good with some beautiful cinematography and a great role for Kinski. His scenes with Cardinale feel improvised, sometimes on the brink of disaster, and so don’t come off as well as the rest of the film.

This feels like Herzog’s Apocalypse Now in that the making of it makes for as interesting a story, if not more so, than the movie itself.

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