Werner Herzog | Germany, Peru | 1982 | 157 Mins | German, Spanish, English, Italian
Fri, Nov 8 | 3:15 PM | PICTURETIME 2 (FOOTBALL GROUND)
Opera-loving European Brian Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) lives in a small Peruvian city. Better known as Fitzcarraldo, this foreigner is obsessed with building an opera house in his town and decides that to make his dream a reality, he needs to make a killing in the rubber business. In order to become a successful rubber baron, Fitzcarraldo hatches an elaborate plan that calls for a particularly impressive feat – bringing a massive boat over a mountain with the help of a band of natives.
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog was born in Munich, grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria, and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written and directed more than sixty feature and documentary films, including Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu (1978), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs To Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He lives in Munich and Los Angeles.
Producer : Werner Herzog, Lucki Stipetić
Writer : Werner Herzog
Cinematographer : Thomas Mauch
Editor : Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound : Juarez Dagoberto, Zezé d’Alice
Music : Popol Vuh (München)
Cast : Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher
