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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: KINSKI,KLAUS
EAN: 0013131093896
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1GermanOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
MPN: ANBD10938D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 157 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1982
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Peru. Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle at the turn of the century. On the outskirts a few shacks are rotting int he mud. In the cetner are the splendid houses of the nouveaux-riches rubber barons. It is in this setting rich in grotesque controast that brian sweeney fitzgerald has his dream. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/16/1999 Starring: Klaus Kinski Claudia Cardinale Run time: 157 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Werner Herzog
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Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo to the native Peruvians, is an avid opera lover and rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. To accomplish this, he plans to reach an isolated patch of rubber trees and make his fortune. But these trees are not directly accessible by river because of dangerous rapids, so Fitzcarraldo runs his ship as close as possible via an alternate river and then enlists the aid of the native Peruvians to drag his ship over a mountain to the desired area. However, the natives seem to have their own agenda in so mysteriously acceding to Fitzcarraldo's wishes. The results manage to both mock and affirm the dreams of determined figures like Fitzcarraldo, making absurdity out of the stuff of human endeavor without negating the beauty of that effort. There is hardly a more awe-inspiring or arresting image than that of Fitzcarraldo's ship pulling itself up the mountain with cables and pulleys, or of the ship resting in mid-ascent as seen through the thick morning fog of the jungle.
The tortured production history of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo (ably recorded in Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams) tends to take the spotlight away from this deeply mesmerizing film. And that's unfortunate, because the film itself is even more fascinating than the trials and tribulations, amazing though they might be, that led to its being made. Part of the problem is the film's deliberate, some might say ponderous, pace, which invites the viewer to experience the slow immersion into the jungle that Fitzcarraldo and company experience. Herzog did something similar in Aguirre, the Wrath of God, sometimes aiming his camera at the river rapids for extended periods of time, with hypnotic results. This could never happen in a Hollywood film, and it should be treasured. --Jim Gay
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I shan't go into a repeat of the rave reviews already printed here, concerning this magnificent film. I think the other reviewers have created excellent descriptions of the visuals, as well as accurate representations of the characters and the storyline. I agree with every note of praise lavished upon this masterpiece.
For me, the transition of the main character from a "Dreamer" to "A Man with a Dream" is as subtle as, well let's say, a ship being dragged up and over a mountain. I ... Read More
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"Fitzcarraldo" is, in my opinion, one of the greatest films of all time. A tribute to hope, dreams, and the human spirit. As does Fitzcarraldo pull a steamship over a mountain to secure a remote property of rubber trees, so did director Werner Herzog to film it (using no special effects). As a filmmaker, Herzog ascends into the realm of the supernatural. "Fitzcarraldo" is Werner Herzog's magnum opus and stands as a testament to how close filmmakers have made films as they should be.
The ... Read More
Rating:  -
The Bottom Line:
Fitzcarraldo is overlong and the first half an hour drags quite a bit, but in this day of transparently fake special effects dominating the screen, the spectacle of a man pulling an actual steamship over a mountain is worth the price of admission; in terms of filmmaking this film falls behind Aguirre the Wrath of God, but if you like films then it's something you should watch before you die.
3.5/4
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Herzog returns to the beautiful yet merciless Amazonian jungles and creates a film of epic proportions. In this turn of the century tale the Amazon beckons and Brian Sweeney Fitzacarraldo answers it's call. Fitzcarraldo has a dream to build a great opera house and his eccentric nature will not allow that dream to go unfulfilled. After failed attempts to build a Peruvian railroad line, he then directs his efforts to the production of ice. Scoffed by the local rubber barons who tag Fitzcarraldo as the ... Read More
Rating:  -
His films are perfect examples of the European tradition of the 'auteur' film, in which the director is seen as the originating and creative force behind the work... But there is also a sense that Herzog's visionary monomaniacs function as the director's alter ego, embodying the heroic status of the auteur, always struggling against recalcitrant reality to fulfill his dream...
This seems especially true of "Fitzcarraldo," which, sets a hundred years ago, begins with an Irish colonist who ... Read More
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