Top billed cast

1. 

   Klaus Kinski

   Fitzcarraldo

2. 

   Claudia Cardinale

   Molly

3. 

   José Lewgoy

   Don Aquilino

4. 

   Miguel Ángel Fuentes

   Cholo

5. 

   Paul Hittscher

   Orinoco Paul

6. 

   Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez

   Huerequeque

7. 

   Grande Otelo

   Station Master

8. 

   Peter Berling

   Opera Manager

9. 

   David Pérez Espinosa

   Campa Chief

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2020-09-13

_**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 considerable area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayali Falls. To get to this remote area he incredibly has his steamboat lifted over a hill from another branch of the Amazon with the assistance of notorious headhunters. Claudia Cardinale plays his girlfriend, a successful brothel ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
German

Budget
$7,362,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• peru
• plantation
• ambition
• amazon rainforest
• steamboat
• south america
• opera house
• riverboat
• 19th century
• imperialism
• iquitos, peru
• amazon river
• rubber
• white water rafting
• willpower
• manaos, brazil
• transporting boat
• amazonie