Fitzcarraldo
Dare to dream the impossible.
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.
- Genre: Drama, Adventure
- Studio: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, ZDF, Wildlife Films Peru, Filmverlag der Autoren
- Keyword: 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
- Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez