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Running time 157 minutes Language English Format 35 mm / Ratio 1:1.85 Sound Dolby digital surround 5.1	FITZCARRALDO (1980-81) ____________________________________ Starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale Directed by Werner Herzog Plot Summary Peru. Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle at the turn of the century. It is there that 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 his dream, Fitzcarraldo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayali Falls. 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, Fitzcarraldo fights fever and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible... Screenplay by Werner Herzog Produced by Werner Herzog & Lucki Stipetic Producer (Brazil) George Sluizer a Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Crew Director of photography – Thomas Mauch Production designer – Henning von Gierjke Art director – Ulrich Bergfelder Costume designer – Gisela Storch Sound – Juarez Dagoberto Costa Music – Popol Vuh Opera – Verdi / Puccini / Strauss Staging opera – Werner Schröter Editor – Beate Mainka-Hellinghaus Line producer – Walter Saxer Cast Fitzcarraldo – Klaus Kinski Molly – Claudia Cardinale Mario Adorf – Captain Paul Hittscher – Captain Don Aquilino – José Lewgoy Cholo – Miguel Angel Fuentes Huerequeque the cook – Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez Stationmaster – Grande Otelo Opera manager – Peter Berling Blackman – Milton Nascimento Rubber baron – Ruy Polanah 1 \| 2	next movie >