Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Klaus Kinski
Fitzcarraldo
Claudia Cardinale
Molly
José Lewgoy
Don Aquilino
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Cholo
Paul Hittscher
Orinoco Paul
Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
Huerequeque
Grande Otelo
Station Master
Peter Berling
Opera Manager
David Pérez Espinosa
Campa Chief
Milton Nascimento
Opera House Blackman
Ruy Polanah
Rubber Baron
Salvador Godínez
Old Missionary
Dieter Milz
Young Missionary
William L. Rose
Notary
Willi Segler
Producer
Veriano Luchetti
Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani (voice)
Costante Moret
Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani
Dimiter Petkov
Opera 'Ernani' - Silva
Mietta Sighele
Opera 'Ernani' - Elvira (voice)
Lourdes Magalhães
Opera 'Ernani' - Orchestra Pit Singer
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Opera 'Ernani' - Sarah Bernhardt
Isabel Jiménez de Cisneros
Opera 'I puritani' - Doña Elvira
Liborio Simonella
Opera 'I puritani' - Arturo
Jesus Goiri
Opera 'I puritani' - Giorgio
Christian Mantilla
Opera 'I puritani' - Walton
Werner Herzog
Director / Producer / Screenplay
Walter Saxer
Executive Producer
Lucki Stipetić
Producer
Popol Vuh
Original Music Composer
Thomas Mauch
Director of Photography
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Editor
Beat Presser
Still Photographer / Assistant Camera
Renzo Rossellini
Associate Producer
Ulrich Bergfelder
Production Design
Henning von Gierke
Production Design
Juarez Dagoberto Costa
Sound
Zezé d'Alice
Sound
Gisela Storch
Costume Designer
Gloria Fava
Makeup Designer / Hair Designer
Stefano Fava
Makeup Designer / Hair Designer
Miguel Vázquez
Special Effects
Raimund Wirner
Gaffer
Hans-Peter Vogt
Gaffer
Jorge Vignati
Assistant Director
George Sluizer
Production Manager
Gustavo Cerff Arbulú
Production Assistant
Nancy Ríos
Production Secretary
Claire André
Production Secretary
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1982
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 37m
Content RatingPG
Budget$7,362,000
Filming LocationsPeru
Genres
Wiki.
Fitzcarraldo (/fɪtskə'raldo/) is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over a steep hill to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin. The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once transported a disassembled steamboat over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald.
The film had a troubled production, chronicled in the documentary Burden of Dreams (1982). Herzog had his crew attempt to manually haul the 320-ton steamship up a steep hill, leading to three injuries. The film's original star Jason Robards became sick halfway through filming, so Herzog hired Kinski, with whom he had previously clashed violently during production of Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), and Woyzeck (1979). Their fourth collaboration fared no better. When shooting was nearly complete, the chief of the Machiguenga tribe, whose members were used extensively as extras, asked Herzog if they should kill Kinski for him. Herzog declined.