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- BFI identifier1197
- Date1981 (Copyright)
- Production countryFederal Republic of Germany, Peru
- Production company
- Synopsis1896. A penniless entrepreneur, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (called Fitzcarraldo by the Indians) living in Iquitos, a shanty town on the Amazon thousands of miles from anywhere, has a dream: to bring opera to the town, and especially Caruso, who has just given a performance in the rubber-boom city of Manaus. To get Caruso, he has to build an opera house, which involves his undertaking a scheme to exploit a hitherto inaccessible area of rubber trees, which lies beyond rapids never before navigated. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Werner Herzog
©: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
view all - CastKlaus Kinski (Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, 'Fitzcarraldo')
José Lewgoy (Don Aquilino)
Miguel Ángel Fuentes (Cholo)
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Title
Fitzcarraldo (Original)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsEphemera: publicity - PBS-1197
Script - Screenplay by Werner Herzog; English translation by Martje Herzog and Alan Greenberg. No date. - S15416
See FILM AND TELEVISION EPHEMERA List. Small pressbook held.
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- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes July 2013
BFI Southbank Programme Notes February 2020
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
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Work - 1197 - 1981 (Copyright)
Federal Republic of Germany - Film - Fiction
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