Storyline
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
Released
March 1982
Runtime
2h 37min
Director
Budget
$7,362,000
Genre
Status
Released
Language
German
Production
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, ZDF, Wildlife Films Peru, Filmverlag der Autoren
Cast
Klaus Kinski
Fitzcarraldo
Claudia Cardinale
Molly
José Lewgoy
Don Aquilino
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Cholo
Paul Hittscher
Orinoco Paul
Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
Huerequeque
Grande Otelo
Station Master
Peter Berling
Opera Manager
David Pérez Espinosa
Campa Chief
Milton Nascimento
Opera House Blackman
Ruy Polanah
Rubber Baron
Salvador Godínez
Old Missionary
Dieter Milz
Young Missionary
William L. Rose
Notary
Leoncio Bueno
Acting
Veriano Luchetti
Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani (voice)
Costante Moret
Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani
Dimiter Petkov
Opera 'Ernani' - Silva
Mietta Sighele
Opera 'Ernani' - Elvira (voice)
Lourdes Magalhães
Opera 'Ernani' - Orchestra Pit Singer
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Opera 'Ernani' - Sarah Bernhardt
Isabel Jiménez de Cisneros
Opera 'I puritani' - Doña Elvira
Liborio Simonella
Opera 'I puritani' - Arturo
Jesus Goiri
Opera 'I puritani' - Giorgio
Christian Mantilla
Opera 'I puritani' - Walton
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