Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo is a West-German drama film from 1982 directed by Werner Herzog. ==Story[ Edit] == Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) is a European in Iquitos, a small town in Peru in the early 20th century. He has an indomitable spirit, but is actually a Daydreamer who have already had a big failure to his name: the bankrupt and incomplete Trans-Andean railway. As an opera lover and big fan of the famous tenor Enrico Caruso, he now dreams of building an opera in Iquitos. To do this, he has a lot of money and the most profitable industry in Peru at that time is rubber. The areas that are known to contain rubber trees are already subdivided by the Peruvian Government and are rented for operations.

"Fitzcarraldo", as the locals call him, examines how he can make his entrance in the rubber trade. A helpful rubber baron shows him a map which shows that there is only one unclaimed parcel in the area. He lays out why nobody wants that plot: Fitzcarraldo although it to the Ucayali River, it is cut off from the Amazon by a treacherous series of rapids. However, Fitzcarraldo see on the map that the Pachitea River, a parallel tributary of the Amazon, the Ucayali to a few hundred feet approaching, upstream of the rubber area.

To realize his dream of a lot of the Government he hires the inaccessible rubber. With the selfless deposit of his mistress, Molly (Claudia Cardinale), a successful brothel keeper, he buys a steamer (which he christens the Molly Aida) of the rubber baron; are looking for a crew together and speed the Pachitea on, the parallel River. This River is known for that they are dangerous as one gets further from the Amazon comes because of the unfriendly tribes that inhabit the area. Fitzcarraldo wants to sail upstream to the point where the Pachitea and Ucayali each other almost meet up then, with the manpower of rented natives, are 320 ton steamer and three floors with the muddy 40 ° slopes to drag from one river to the other. Using the steamer he will then collect rubber in the upper Ucayali to it via the Pachitea to market.

Most of the crew, unaware of Fitzcarraldo's plan, makes itself from the feet as soon as they enter the territory of the natives, leaving him with only the captain, machinist and kok left behind. However, the natives are impressed by Fitzcarraldo and his ship, that they for a god. They offer itself as labour, without that they really understand his intentions. After a devastating first attempt, the ship successfully pulled over the mountain with a complex system of pulleys, driven by the natives and helped by the engine of the ship. However, when the crew falls asleep drunk after celebrating their success, the leader of the natives cuts the rope by which the ship established. This is to satisfy the river gods, now has defied them by nature to circumvent Fitzcarraldo. The Molly Aida now floats down the River towards the rapids.

The ship manages to cross the rapids without major damage, and Fitzcarraldo returns in Iquitos without that the expedition has produced anything. Dejected he sells the ship back to the rubber baron, but first he sends the captain still on a last trip. He then returns with the entire cast of the opera, including Caruso. Very Iquitos runs out to the quay as Fitzcarraldo, mooring, on top of the ship standing, and proud the cast shows. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Klaus Kinski: Fitzcarraldo
 * Claudia Cardinale: Molly
 * José Lewgoy: Don Aquilino
 * Miguel Ángel Fuentes: Cholo Miguel
 * Paul Hittscher: Captain Orinoco
 * Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez: