Fitzcarraldo

1982 · 157 min · DE · PG · 7.6 (933 votes)

Dir. Werner Herzog · Starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez · Music Popol Vuh

“Dare to dream the impossible.”

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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.

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This film is a hypnotic, arduous journey into the heart of human obsession and the untamed wilderness. It feels monumental and deeply unsettling, a testament to both grand artistic vision and the crushing weight of an impossible dream. The atmosphere is thick with ambition and the raw, indifferent power of nature.

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