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Fitzcarraldo [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Werner Herzog.

Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor], 1999.

Europeans -- Peru -- Drama.

Indians of South America -- Peru -- Drama.

Iquitos (Peru) -- Drama.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (157 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.

Special features include: Audio commentary with director Werner Herzog, producer Lucki Stipetic, and Norman Hill ; theatrical trailer ; still gallery ; talent bios.

A West Germany/Peru co-production.

Includes the original German with an optional (dubbed) English soundtrack and optional English subtitles.

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion ; produziert von Werner Herzog und Lucki Stipetic ; Buch und Regie, Werner Herzog.

Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale.

"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 in the mud. In the center are the splendid houses of the nouveaux-riches rubber barons. Sweeney Fitzgerald -- Fitzcarraldo, as the natives call him -- has his dream of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great celebration of Grand Opera. To finance this fantastic dream, Fitzcarraldo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayala Falls. To circumvent this barrier, he literally has his huge steamboat lifted over a mountain from one branch of the river to the other. With the aid of a tribe of Indians bewitched by records featuring the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Fitzcarraldo fights fever, mosquitos and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible..."--Container.

Adventure films.

Surrealist films.

Herzog, Werner, 1942-

Cardinale, Claudia, 1939-

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