Fitzcarraldo

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.

Genre : DramaAdventure

Runtime : 157 mins

Release Date : 1982-03-02

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_**Apocalypse Now in the Amazon headwaters**_ Called Fitzcarraldo by the Indians, an Irishman (Klaus Kinski) living in Iquitos, Peru, dreams of bringing Grand Opera to the jungle city in the Amazon Basin. It’s the early 1900s and there’s a rubber boom. To fund his dream he decides to exploit a c...

Klaus Kinski is great as the eponymous, slightly maniacal, opera lover who decides that his love of Verdi, Bellini and Puccini needs to be shared with his mid-jungle community. He realises that to do that, he must have cash - and that's only to be found if he can manage to tap into the rubber trees...

Cast

Klaus Kinski

(Fitzcarraldo)

Claudia Cardinale

(Molly)

José Lewgoy

(Don Aquilino)

Miguel Ángel Fuentes

(Cholo)

Paul Hittscher

(Orinoco Paul)

Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez

(Huerequeque)

Grande Otelo

(Station Master)

Peter Berling

(Opera Manager)

David Pérez Espinosa

(Campa Chief)

Milton Nascimento

(Opera House Blackman)

Ruy Polanah

(Rubber Baron)

Salvador Godínez

(Old Missionary)

Dieter Milz

(Young Missionary)

William L. Rose

(Notary)

Leoncio Bueno

( - )

Veriano Luchetti

(Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani (voice))

Costante Moret

(Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani)

Dimiter Petkov

(Opera 'Ernani' - Silva)

Mietta Sighele

(Opera 'Ernani' - Elvira (voice))

Lourdes Magalhães

(Opera 'Ernani' - Orchestra Pit Singer)

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

(Opera 'Ernani' - Sarah Bernhardt)

Isabel Jiménez de Cisneros

(Opera 'I puritani' - Doña Elvira)

Liborio Simonella

(Opera 'I puritani' - Arturo)

Jesus Goiri

(Opera 'I puritani' - Giorgio)

Christian Mantilla

(Opera 'I puritani' - Walton)