FITZCARRALDO (WIDESCREEN) (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 1982
• Genre: Adventure, Drama
• Plot: German filmmaker Werner Herzog has never done anything by halves. When Herzog tackled Fitzcarraldo, the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America, the director boldly embarked on the same journey, disdaining studios, process shots, and special effects throughout. The highlight of the story is Fizcarraldo's Herculean effort to haul a 300-plus ton steamship over the mountains. No trickery was used in filming this grueling sequence, and stories still persist of disgruntled South American film technicians awaiting the opportunity to strangle Herzog if he ever sets foot on their land again. In the end, Herzog proved to be as driven and single-purposed as his protagonist, and it is the audience's knowledge of this that adds to the excitement of Fitzcarraldo.
• Cast: Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez, Grande Otelo, Peter Berling, David Pérez Espinosa, Milton Nascimento, Ruy Polanah, Salvador Godínez, Dieter Milz, William L. Rose, Claudia Cardinale, Isabel Jimines de Cisneros, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Jesús Goiri, Veriano Luchetti, Lourdes Magalhaes, Christian Mantilla, Costante Moret, Dimiter Petkov, Mietta Sighele, Liborio Simonella, Werner Herzog
• Director: Werner Herzog
• Runtime: 2:38
• Company: Anchor Bay
• Media Format: Movie