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For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career, Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made more perilous by Herzog’s determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of indigenous Peruvians to pull a full-size, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded mission of one of cinema’s most fearless directors.
Original Release
05/30/1982
US Release
11/11/2012
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Werner Herzog | Self / Self - Filmmaker |
Klaus Kinski | Fitzcarraldo / Self / Self - Actor |
Claudia Cardinale | Molly / Self / Self - Actress |
Jason Robards | Fitzcarraldo / Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) |
Mick Jagger | Wilbur / Wilbur (archive footage) |
Alfredo De Rio Tambo | Self |
Ángela Reina | Self |
Carmen Correa | Self |
Elia De Rio Ene | Self |
David Pérez Espinosa | Self / Self - Actor |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Werner Herzog | Self / Self - Filmmaker |
Klaus Kinski | Fitzcarraldo / Self / Self - Actor |
Claudia Cardinale | Molly / Self / Self - Actress |
Jason Robards | Fitzcarraldo / Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) |
Mick Jagger | Wilbur / Wilbur (archive footage) |
Alfredo De Rio Tambo | Self |
Ángela Reina | Self |
Carmen Correa | Self |
Elia De Rio Ene | Self |
David Pérez Espinosa | Self / Self - Actor |
Miguel Ángel Fuentes | Self / Self - Actor |
Paul Hittscher | Self / Self - Actor |
Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez | Self / Self - Actor |
Evaristo Nunkuag Ikanan | Self |
Jose Lewgoy | Self / Self - Actor |
Laplace Martins | Self / Self - Civil Engineer |
Thomas Mauch | Self / Self - DOP |
Nelson De Rio Cenepa | Self |
Walter Saxer | Self / Self - Producer |
Jorge Vignati | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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David R. Loxton | Executive Producer |
Les Blank | Producer |
Kathy Kline | Producer |
José Koechlin von Stein | Producer |