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Cast
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| Klaus Kinski | ... | Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' | |
| Claudia Cardinale | ... | Molly | |
| José Lewgoy | ... | Don Aquilino | |
| Miguel Ángel Fuentes | ... | Cholo | |
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Paul Hittscher | ... | Captain (Orinoco Paul) |
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Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez | ... | Huerequeque (The Cook) (as Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez) |
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Grande Otelo | ... | Station master (as Grande Othelo) |
| Peter Berling | ... | Opera Manager | |
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David Pérez Espinosa | ... | Chief of Campa Indians |
| Milton Nascimento | ... | Black Man At Opera House | |
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Ruy Polanah | ... | Rubber Baron |
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Salvador Godínez | ... | Old Missionary |
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Dieter Milz | ... | Young Missionary |
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William Rose | ... | Notary (as Bill Rose) |
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Leoncio Bueno | ||
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Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians. Written by Rune Sandnes <rune@nvg.unit.no>
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based on true story | opera | jungle | river boat | new german cinema |Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
10 October 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Fickaraldo See more »Company Credits
Production Co:
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Filmverlag der Autoren See more »
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[shouting and ringing the church bells]
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': I want my opera house! I want the opera house! This church remains closed until this town has its opera house. I want my opera house! I want my opera house! I want my opera house!
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Among more than a thousand extras, a few perished from disease - though arguably not as many as might naturally have done so without the presence of the production's camp doctor. See more »Goofs
Right after Molly christens the boat, they hug, and as they are hugging, actor Krause Kinski glances up at the camera, not once, but twice. See more »Quotes
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': This church remains closed until this town has its opera house. I want the opera house.[shouting and ringing the church bells]
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': I want my opera house! I want the opera house! This church remains closed until this town has its opera house. I want my opera house! I want my opera house! I want my opera house!
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This seems especially true of "Fitzcarraldo," which, sets a hundred years ago, begins with an Irish colonist who had a passion for opera rowing 1,200 miles down a South American river, accompanied by the madam of a brothel, in order to hear the great Caruso perform
Inspired by this experience, Fitzcarraldo embarks on a grandiose plan to open up the Amazonian jungle to river transport, providing access to new rubber plantations and thereby making enough money to build an opera house
Herzog's favorite actor, Klaus Kinski, is as appropriately manic as Fitzcarraldo, eyes glittering madly as he pursues his vision In the central sequence he organizes a tribe of Indians to help him pull a steamboat across a mountain in order to by-pass dangerous rapids
"Fitcarraldo" seems by turns admiring of its hero's megalomania and mocking of his hubris, with no illusions about the cynical exploitation of the region's riches by the rubber barons whom Fitzcarraldo tries to defeat by cleverness Ultimately though, it is the sheer spectacle which we remember