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Fitzcarraldo
Adventure, Drama - 1982
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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.
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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
157 min
Release date:
2 Mar 1982
Country:
DE, PE
Languages:
English, German, Italian, Spanish
Budget:
$7,362,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award4 wins & 4 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

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.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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
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
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