This article is about the film. For other uses, see Fitzcarraldo (disambiguation).
Fitzcarraldo
German release poster
Directed by
Werner Herzog
Written by
Werner Herzog
Produced by
Werner Herzog
Walter Saxer
Lucki Stipetić
Jorge Vignatti
Starring
Klaus Kinski
Claudia Cardinale
José Lewgoy
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Paul Hittscher
Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
Grande Otelo
Peter Berling
Cinematography
Thomas Mauch
Edited by
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Music by
Popol Vuh
Production companies
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Pro-ject Filmproduktion
Filmverlag der Autoren
ZDF
Wildlife Films Peru S.A., Iquitos
Distributed by
Filmverlag der Autoren (West Germany)
Release date
5 March 1982 (1982-03-05) (West Germany)
Running time
157 minutes
Countries
West Germany
Peru
Languages
German
Spanish
Asháninka
(Shot in English)
Budget
DM 14 million[1]
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.[2]
^Rumler, Fritz (24 August 1981). ""Eine Welt, in der Schiffe über Berge fliegen"". Der Spiegel. No. 35/1981. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
^Klaus Kinski Wutausbruch am Filmset von 'Fitzcarraldo' - Section from the Movie "Mein liebster Feind" (in German), retrieved 6 December 2022
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