Fitzcarraldo

One of Herzog’s most ambitious movies, an epic tale of individual obsession confronting the seemingly insuperable obstacle of the Amazonian wilderness.

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • With

    Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy

  • West Germany 1982. 158min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

A famously audacious Herzog project, this explores the lengths to which Kinski’s European adventurer might go in his dream of bringing opera – and Caruso – to a remote Amazonian trading-post; persuading locals to haul a ship over a mountain is just one obstacle his obsession confronts. Reflecting the extended, troubled circumstances of its own making, the film – critique, celebration, self-portrait? – has a bravura unto itself.

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