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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
DE
Genres:
Drama, Adventure
Release:
March 1982
Production:
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, ZDF, Wildlife Films Peru, Filmverlag der Autoren
Cast:
Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez, Grande Otelo, Peter Berling, David Pérez Espinosa, Milton Nascimento, Ruy Polanah, Salvador Godínez, Dieter Milz, William Rose, Leoncio Bueno, Veriano Luchetti, Costante Moret, Dimiter Petkov, Mietta Sighele, Lourdes Magalhães, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Isabel Jiménez de Cisneros, Liborio Simonella, Jesus Goiri, Christian Mantilla
Tags:
peru, plantation, ambition, amazon rainforest, steamboat, south america, opera house, riverboat, 19th century, imperialism, iquitos, peru, amazon river, rubber, white water rafting, willpower, manaos, brazil, transporting boat, amazonie