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.

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
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Release Date
March 2, 1982
Runtime
2h 37m
Rating
PG
Genres
Adventure, Drama
Director