FULL FITZCARRALDO Full Movie Germany 1982 Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale

• Work Title: Fitzcarraldo  
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: Manaus, Brazil, Iquitos, Peru  
• Recorded: 1982
• Type: Movie
• Singers: Enrico Caruso, Veriano Luchetti, Lourdes Magalhaes, Christian Mantilla, Costante Moret, Dimiter Petkov, Mietta Sighele, Liborio Simonella
• Conductor: unknown  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Werner Herzog  
• Stage Designer: Ulrich Bergfelder, Henning von Gierke  
• Costume Designer: Gisela Storch  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Filmverlag der Autoren  
• Date Published: 1982  
• Format: DVD & BD
• Quality Video: 5 Audio:5
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  
• Video Recording from: AMAZON     #ad   Get this Recording
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The film uses excerpts from the operas: Verdi’s Ernani, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (“Ridi, Pagliaccio”), Puccini’s La bohème, Bellini’s I puritani

Brian Sweeney “Fitzcarraldo” Fitzgerald is an Irishman living in Iquitos, a small city east of the Andes in the Amazon Basin in Peru in the early part of the 20th century, when the city grew exponentially during the rubber boom. He has an indomitable spirit, but is little more than a dreamer with one major failure already behind him – the bankrupted and incomplete Trans-Andean railways. A lover of opera and a great fan of the internationally known Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, he dreams of building an opera house in Iquitos.

Fitzcarraldo explores entering the rubber business. A helpful rubber baron points out on a map the only remaining unclaimed parcel in the area. He explains that while it is located on the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon, it is cut off from the Amazon (and access to Atlantic ports) by a lengthy section of rapids. Fitzcarraldo sees that the Pachitea River, another Amazon tributary, comes within several hundred meters of the Ucayali upstream of the parcel. He and his crew explore the river.

Fitzcarraldo and his crew are forced to return to Iquitos without any rubber. Despondent, Fitzcarraldo sells the ship back to the rubber baron, but first sends the captain on a last voyage. He returns with the entire cast for the first opera production, including Caruso. The entire city of Iquitos comes to the shore as Fitzcarraldo, standing on top of the ship, proudly displays the cast.