BRD 1982, R: Werner Herzog mit Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, 158 Min, OmU
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A film that moves mountains. This is a project entirely to the taste of the eccentric director Werner Herzog.
That's why the Munich-based director refused to be dissuaded from realising his exhilaratingly photographed jungle epic "Fitzcarraldo" in 1981, despite almost insurmountable problems.
In his fourth collaboration with his favourite actor Klaus Kinski, Herzog depicts the story of a great dream in grandiose images.
The fact that "Fitzcarraldo" was completed at all in view of the production history is a cinematic miracle. However, the four-year endeavour paid off for everyone involved. "Fitzcarraldo" is masterful cinema, a visual work of art and perhaps the last great adventure of German film.
Iquitos around 1900: after a failed railway project, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo, is already planning his next coup. He wants to build an opera house in the middle of the jungle. But he has no more money and turns to his girlfriend, the brothel owner Molly (Claudia Cardinale). She advises him to buy a seemingly worthless piece of land that is inaccessible. There are 14 million rubber trees on the land, which he could exploit industrially.
To do this, he first has to get there, so he buys an old steamship and wants to be dragged over a mountain by muscle power by wild Indians. (filmstarts.de)
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Ein Film, der Berge versetzt. Das ist ein Projekt ganz nach dem Geschmack des Regie-Exzentrikers Werner Herzog.
Deshalb ließ sich der Münchner 1981 auch trotz nahezu unüberwindbarer Probleme nicht von der Umsetzung seines berauschend photographierten Urwald-Epos' „Fitzcarraldo" abbringen. In grandiosen Bildern schildert Herzog in der vierten Zusammenarbeit mit seinem Leibschauspieler Klaus Kinski die Geschichte eines großen Traumes.
Dass „Fitzcarraldo" angesichts der Produktionsgeschichte überhaupt fertiggestellt wurde, gleicht einem filmischen Wunder. Die vierjährigen Mühen haben sich für alle Beteiligten jedoch ausgezahlt. „Fitzcarraldo" ist meisterhaftes Kino, ein visuelles Kunstwerk und vielleicht das letzte große Abenteuer des deutschen Films.
Iquitos um 1900: Nach einem gescheiterten Eisenbahnprojekt plant Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), genannt Fitzcarraldo, bereits seinen nächsten Coup. Mitten im Urwald will er ein Opernhaus errichten. Doch er besitzt kein Geld mehr und wendet sich an seine Freundin, die Bordellbesitzerin Molly (Claudia Cardinale). Diese rät ihm ein scheinbar wertloses Stück Land zu kaufen, das unzugänglich ist. Auf dem Gelände befinden sich nämlich 14 Millionen Kautschukbäume, die er industriell ausbeuten könnte.
Dazu muss er erst einmal dahin gelangen, also kauft er ein altes Dampschiff und will sich von wilden Indianern per Muskelkraft über einen Berg schleppen lassen. (filmstarts.de)
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A film that moves mountains. This is a project entirely to the taste of the eccentric director Werner Herzog.
That's why the Munich native refused to be dissuaded from realising his exhilaratingly photographed jungle epic "Fitzcarraldo" in 1981, despite almost insurmountable problems. I
n his fourth collaboration with his favourite actor Klaus Kinski, Herzog depicts the story of a great dream in grandiose images.
The fact that "Fitzcarraldo" was completed at all in view of the production history is a cinematic miracle. However, the four-year endeavour paid off for everyone involved. "Fitzcarraldo" is masterful cinema, a visual work of art and perhaps the last great adventure of German film.
Iquitos around 1900: after a failed railway project, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo, is already planning his next coup. He wants to build an opera house in the middle of the jungle. But he has no more money and turns to his girlfriend, the brothel owner Molly (Claudia Cardinale). She advises him to buy a seemingly worthless piece of land that is inaccessible. There are 14 million rubber trees on the land, which he could exploit industrially.
To do this, he first has to get there, so he buys an old steamship and wants to be dragged over a mountain by muscle power by wild Indians. (filmstarts.de)