Title: Fitzcarraldo
Original Title: Fitzcarraldo
Year: 1982
Info
- Country: Germany Peru
- Length: 158 Minutes (2 hours 38 min)
- Genre: Adventure Biography Drama
- Studios: Filmverlag der Autoren
Release Dates
- United States: October 10 1982
Plot
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, known as Fitzcarraldo to the native Peruvians, is an avid opera lover and rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. To accomplish this, he plans to reach an isolated patch of rubber trees and make his fortune. But these trees are not directly accessible by river because of dangerous rapids, so Fitzcarraldo runs his ship as close as possible via an alternate river and then enlists the aid of the native Peruvians to drag his ship over a mountain to the desired area. However, the natives seem to have their own agenda in so mysteriously acceding to Fitzcarraldo's wishes. The results manage to both mock and affirm the dreams of determined figures like Fitzcarraldo, making absurdity out of the stuff of human endeavor without negating the beauty of that effort.
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