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Fitzcarraldo (1982)

★ 7.6 · 872 ratings on TMDB

Dare to dream the impossible.

Fitzcarraldo poster★ 7.6

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.

DirectorWerner Herzog
CastClaude Cardinale, David Pérez Espinosa, Grande Otelo, Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez, José Lewgoy, Klaus Kinski
GenresAdventure, Drama
The emergence reading

Fitzcarraldo keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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