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Fitzcarraldo 157 minutes, Germany (1982), PG
(5.0)
Rating: 5.0 Stars
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Fitzcarraldo

Klaus Kinski is the opera-obsessed adventurer whose plan to build an opera house in the middle of the Amazonian jungle involves pulling a steamship over a mountain in this extraordinarily ambitious film by Werner Herzog

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Fitzcarraldo: These days, should a filmmaker wish to show an enormous 19th-century river steamer being hauled across a remote South American mountain, then he need only call up the special effects department and it can probably be done by lunchtime...
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