Rotten
The film may have been intended as an ironic comment on the absurdity of human ambition, but it's an irony that explodes in Herzog's face.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fitzcarraldo
Dare to dream the impossible.
1982 · 2h 37m · PG
Adventure, Drama
Directed by
Werner Herzog
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Werner Herzog Director
- Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo'
- José Lewgoy as Don Aquilino
- Miguel Ángel Fuentes as Cholo
- Paul Hittscher as Captain (Orinoco Paul)
- Claudia Cardinale as Molly
- Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez as Huerequeque, the Cook
- Grande Otelo as Station master
- Peter Berling Cast
- David Pérez Espinosa Cast
- Milton Nascimento Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As a document of a quest and a dream, and as the record of man's audacity and foolish, visionary heroism, there has never been another movie like it.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
It's a stunning spectacle, an adventure-comedy not quite like any other, and the most benign movie ever made about 19th-century capitalism running amok.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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