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1982
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irish would-be rubber baron known in Peru as "Fitzcarraldo", who is determined to transport a steamship over a mountain in the Amazon rainforest and thereby access a rich rubber territory, with the ultimate goal of using the wealth to build an opera house in…
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When people talk about "epic films", they usually refer to spectacular Hollywood productions. It is very rare for non-Hollywood films to be seen as "epic", and even rarer for films that could be described as "anti-Hollywood" because of the lack of commercial considerations by their makers. Werner Herzog achieved that with his 1982 adventure epic *Fitzcarraldo*, film also known as "epic" because of its legendary diff…More
