A man is obsessed with the dream of building an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. To fund the project he has the idea of hauling a steamship over a mountain and into a river tributary where he can achieve a monopoly in the rubber trading business.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Lucki Stipetic
EAN
5035673020326
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25048545046
Product Key Features
Film/TV Title
Fitzcarraldo
Actor
Claudia Cardinale, Klaus Kinski
Director
Werner Herzog
Format
DVD
Language
German
Release Year
2015
Genre
Drama, General
Run Time
152 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate
PG
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
West Germany
Consumer Advice
Contains mild language, violence and sex references
Additional Information
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.