Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Country: GER
Technical: col 158m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy
Synopsis:
An eccentric entrepreneur resolves to bring opera to the Amazon by making his fortune in rubber. He first takes a reconnaissance trip up river, where he determines to short cut through an ox-bow by having the Indians drag his ship over the intervening hillside.
Review:
Only Herzog could have dreamt this up for his return to the location of his great Aguirre film, and the fact that he successfully put himself through the same challenge as his character at least bespeaks a certain humility in his megalomania. A miracle of a film, then, captured in the companion documentary Burden of Dreams, but not without a sour taste in the mouth.
Country: GER
Technical: col 158m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy
Synopsis:
An eccentric entrepreneur resolves to bring opera to the Amazon by making his fortune in rubber. He first takes a reconnaissance trip up river, where he determines to short cut through an ox-bow by having the Indians drag his ship over the intervening hillside.
Review:
Only Herzog could have dreamt this up for his return to the location of his great Aguirre film, and the fact that he successfully put himself through the same challenge as his character at least bespeaks a certain humility in his megalomania. A miracle of a film, then, captured in the companion documentary Burden of Dreams, but not without a sour taste in the mouth.
Country: GER
Technical: col 158m
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy
Synopsis:
An eccentric entrepreneur resolves to bring opera to the Amazon by making his fortune in rubber. He first takes a reconnaissance trip up river, where he determines to short cut through an ox-bow by having the Indians drag his ship over the intervening hillside.
Review:
Only Herzog could have dreamt this up for his return to the location of his great Aguirre film, and the fact that he successfully put himself through the same challenge as his character at least bespeaks a certain humility in his megalomania. A miracle of a film, then, captured in the companion documentary Burden of Dreams, but not without a sour taste in the mouth.