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.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award4 wins & 4 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The film may have been intended as an ironic comment on the absurdity of human ambition, but it's an irony that explodes in Herzog's face.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
9 Feb 2007
fresh:
As a document of a quest and a dream, and as the record of man's audacity and foolish, visionary heroism, there has never been another movie like it.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
It's a stunning spectacle, an adventure-comedy not quite like any other, and the most benign movie ever made about 19th-century capitalism running amok.