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Fitzcarraldo, 1982

Starring: Klaus Kinski

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Written by: Werner Herzog

Language: English

Country: Peru, West Germany

Runtime: 158 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.0

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The mood of Fitzcarraldo is offbeat, exciting, and suspenseful. The plot centers around mistaken identities, following your dreams, and an obsessive quest. It is a foreign, adventure, and drama movie. In approach, Fitzcarraldo is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a jungle. Fitzcarraldo is set in Peru. It happens in the 1900s. The movie is known for being a Cannes festival winner, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed.

Summary of Fitzcarraldo

Director Werner Herzog returns to the exotic locales and obsessive themes of previous works in his Amazon masterpiece, FITZCARRALDO. Klaus Kinski gives a terrifying and determined portrayal of mad genius Fitzcarraldo, whose twin goals of making a fortune off the Amazon rubber trade and bringing an opera house to the jungle give the film its crushing centerpiece--the maniacal leader's Sisyphean efforts at hauling a gigantic steamship over a mountain bank. The single-minded and wickedly energetic Fitzcarraldo moves mountains (and a boat) with his will and along the way acts out a stunning and emotional battle between man and nature, as in the similarly themed Herzog/Kinski collaboration AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD.

Herzog's razor-sharp attention to the minutiae of both Fitzcarraldo's madness and the jungle's corresponding apathy and enormity makes the film a breathtaking metaphor for civilization's impact on the natural world. The documentary style of the film (the cast and crew actually hauled the boat over the mountain) gives the tale an urgency and suspense that, combined with Kinski's bravado performance and Herzog's striking sense of landscape, make FITZCARRALDO an unforgettable experience.

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Language:	English
Country:	Peru, West Germany
Release date:	October 1982
Runtime:	158 min
Awards:	Cannes

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Werner Herzog for Best Director at the 1982 Cannes

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Klaus Kinski

as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo'

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An incredible film with great acting by Klaus Kinsky. If you like literature of the Latin-American Magic Realism, this is your film. It's a perfect translation of Alejo Carpentier's views on "Latin-American Baroque". Read and rate it

21.March.2009
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by: Carlos Mal
Carlos Mal rated this movie10/10Must See

The keystone in Herzog's Man vs. Nature epic filmography (or is it Man vs. The World?), Fitzcarraldo still stands as an epic piece of filmmaking, as notable for it's strenuous method as for it's success as a fim as a whole. To watch the film is to... Read and rate it

20.March.2009
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by: sethdellinger
sethdellinger rated this movie0/10

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