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Werner Herzog Film Collection: Fitzcarraldo

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Werner Herzog

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Plot Summary

Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.

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83%
  • Reviews Counted: 24
  • Fresh: 20
  • Rotten: 4
  • Average Rating: 7.7/10

Top Critics' Reviews

Fresh: It's a stunning spectacle, an adventure-comedy not quite like any other, and the most benign movie ever made about 19th-century capitalism running amok. – Vincent Canby, New York Times, Jul 16, 2008

Fresh: As a document of a quest and a dream, and as the record of man's audacity and foolish, visionary heroism, there has never been another movie like it. – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, Oct 18, 2008

Rotten: The film may have been intended as an ironic comment on the absurdity of human ambition, but it's an irony that explodes in Herzog's face. – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader, Jun 24, 2010

Fresh: Fitzcarraldo is a more objective record of a comparable fever dream, and as such is the preeminent testament of Herzog's labor as a filmmaker. – Rumsey Taylor, Slant Magazine, Apr 29, 2014

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