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  1. Mar 26, 2023 · The Batsh*t True Story Behind Werner Herzog's Wildest Production Ever Werner Herzog. By Matthew Mosley. ... Fitzcarraldo Is a Difficult Film to Watch (But Also a Very Powerful One)

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    Fitzcarraldo (/fɪtskə'raldo/) is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over a steep hill to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin.

  3. Jan 18, 2021 · The movie is about the titular character trying to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle, and it has been named a masterpiece by many esteemed film critics, and Herzog has been called “brave” for his decisions while filming on location in Peru. 10 Wild Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation.

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  4. Aug 28, 2005 · Fitzcarraldo (1982) Rated PG. 157 minutes. Werner Herzog. Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" is one of the great visions of the cinema, and one of the great follies. One would not have been possible without the other. This is a movie about an opera-loving madman who is determined to drag a boat overland from one river system to another.

  5. Oct 10, 1982 · Fitzcarraldo: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher. The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

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  6. Mar 4, 2022 · Based on the extraordinary true story of the Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, a mad Irishman who attempted to create an opera house in the Amazon, his 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, has since become known as one of his most influential films of all time, led on the frontline by his longtime collaborator Klaus Kinski.

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  8. Sep 8, 2023 · Apart from Apocalypse Now, the movie I think of when I think of Fitzcarraldo is the legendary flop Raise The Titanic from 1980 (starring Jason Robards, as it happens) about an extraordinary plan to bring the Titanic wreck to the surface, a box-office disaster now only remembered for producer Lew Grade’s acid quip that it would have been “cheaper to lower the Atlantic.” But again, that Sisyphean struggle, reversing the Titanic sinking, is not unlike Fitzcarraldo’s struggle, or Herzog’s.