Fitzcarraldo poster
Screenplay Werner Herzog
Director Werner Herzog

Fitzcarraldo

Tagline: Dare to dream the impossible.

Release Date: 1982-03-02

Duration: 157 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Claudia Cardinale
    Molly
  • Klaus Kinski
    Fitzcarraldo
  • José Lewgoy
    Don Aquilino
  • Jean-Claude Dreyfus
    Opera 'Ernani' - Sarah Bernhardt
  • Miguel Ángel Fuentes
    Cholo
  • Peter Berling
    Opera Manager
  • Milton Nascimento
    Opera House Blackman
  • Grande Otelo
    Station Master
  • Ruy Polanah
    Rubber Baron
  • Salvador Godínez
    Old Missionary