Fitzcarraldo

109 577 views published on apr 15 2018 the original trailer in high definition of fitzcarraldo 1982 directed by werner herzog and starring klaus kinski claudia cardinale josé lewgoy and miguel.

Fitzcarraldo. Herzog s most legendary feat of filmmaking folly. Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 west german epic adventure drama film written and directed by werner herzog and starring klaus kinski as the title character. One would not have been possible without the other. Werner herzog s fitzcarraldo is one of the great visions of the cinema and one of the great follies.

Fitzcarraldo editions is an independent publisher specialising in contemporary fiction and long form essays. To get there he enlists a tribe of indians with their own. Fitzcarraldo is a spanishized fitzgerald as the peruvians had difficulty pronouncing his irish name correctly. This is a movie about an opera loving madman who is determined to drag a boat overland from one river system to another.

Herzog s character is fanatically driven by a desire to bring european culture in the form of opera into the amazon basin jungle being developed with plantations by the turn of the century rubber boom. 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 plot summary plot synopsis. Kinski is an opera aficionado intent on building an opera house in the peruvian jungle.