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Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo is the story of an obsessive dreamer at the time of the rubber boom at the turn of the century who, in the depths of the Amazon jungle and beset by dangers of all kinds, has visions of presenting grand opera, with the works of Verdi and a unique performance by Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt. Stung to the bone by swarms of mosquitoes, parched by the heat and fever, he nevertheless achieves the impossible. Using the labor of hundreds of native Indians, he manages to drag an enormous river boat across a mountain from one river to another so that he is able to open up an immense new rubber area which will provide him with the money necessary to realize his dream.

Werner Herzog was born in 1942 and has produced, written and directed more than forty films, published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. A selection of his films includeS: Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, 1970), Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, 1971), Fata Morgana (1971), Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, 1972), Every Man for Himself and God Against All (Jeder fuer sich und Gott gegen alle, 1974), Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas, 1976), La Soufrière (1977), Stroszek (1977), Woyzeck (1979), Nosferatu the Vampire (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, 1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Where the Green Ants Dream (Wo die gruenen Ameisen traeumen, 1984), Cobra Verde (1988), Echoes from a Sombre Empire (Echos aus einem duesteren Reich , 1990), Scream of Stone (Schrei aus Stein, 1991), Lessons of Darkness (Lektionen in Finsternis, 1992), Bells from the Deep (Glocken aus der Tiefe, 1993), My Best Fiend (Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski, 1999), Invincible (2001), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (short, 2002), Wheel of Time (Rad der Zeit, 2003), Grizzly Man (2005), and The Wild Blue Yonder (2005).
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 1982
Director Werner Herzog
Screenplay Werner Herzog
Production Company Werner Herzog Film/Vienna
Principal Cast Claudia Cardinale, Paul Hiltscher, Klaus Kinski
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Festival Screenings Cannes 1982, San Sebastian 1982, Singapore 2004
Awards Best Director Cannes 1982, German Film Award in Silver 1982, Guild Film Award - Gold from the Guild of German Art House Cinemas, OCIC Award San Sebastian 1982

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