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Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle in Peru. One resident of the small town, "Fitzcarraldo", as the natives call him, dreams of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great celebration of Grand Opera.
To finance this fantastic dream, Fitzcarraldo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayala Falls. To circumvent this barrier, he literally has his huge steamboat lifted over a mountain from one branch of the river to the other.
With the aid of a tribe of Indians bewitched by the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Enrico Caruso, Fitzcarraldo fights fever, mosquitos and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible....
Original Release
03/04/1982
US Release
10/10/1982
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Klaus Kinski | Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' / Fitzcarraldo |
Jose Lewgoy | Don Aquilino |
Miguel Ángel Fuentes | Cholo |
Paul Hittscher | Captain (Orinoco Paul) / Orinoco Paul |
Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez | Huerequeque (The Cook) / Huerequeque |
Grande Otelo | Station master |
Peter Berling | Opera Manager |
David Pérez Espinosa | Chief of Campa Indians / Campa Chief |
Milton Nascimento | Black Man At Opera House / Opera House Blackman |
Ruy Polanah | Rubber Baron |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Klaus Kinski | Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' / Fitzcarraldo |
Jose Lewgoy | Don Aquilino |
Miguel Ángel Fuentes | Cholo |
Paul Hittscher | Captain (Orinoco Paul) / Orinoco Paul |
Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez | Huerequeque (The Cook) / Huerequeque |
Grande Otelo | Station master |
Peter Berling | Opera Manager |
David Pérez Espinosa | Chief of Campa Indians / Campa Chief |
Milton Nascimento | Black Man At Opera House / Opera House Blackman |
Ruy Polanah | Rubber Baron |
Salvador Godínez | Old Missionary |
Dieter Milz | Young Missionary |
William Rose | Notary |
Leoncio Bueno | |
Claudia Cardinale | Molly |
Isabel Jimines de Cisneros | Opera Singer |
Jean-Claude Dreyfus | Opera Singer / Opera 'Ernani' - Sarah Bernhardt |
Jesus Goiri | Opera Singer / Opera 'I puritani' - Giorgio |
Mick Jagger | Wilbur (scene cut) |
Veriano Luchetti | Opera Singer / Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani (voice) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Walter Saxer | Executive Producer |
Werner Herzog | Producer |
Roger Corman | Producer |
Renzo Rossellini | Producer |
Willi Segler | Producer |
Vasil Dimitrov | Producer |
Editors
Trailers
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1983 | Golden Globe | Best Foreign Film | Nominated |