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Film · 1982 · Adventure drama
Fitzcarraldo
Directed by Werner Herzog
1982
Germany
★ 6.8 editorial score
Herzog dragged a 320-ton steamship over a mountain with no models and no effects: his hero wants an opera house in the Amazon, and the production came to resemble the obsession it filmed.
“Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo"is a movie in the great tradition of grandiose cinematic visions...Movies like this exist on a plane apart from ordinary films. There is a sense in which "Fitzcarraldo" is not altogether successful — it is too long, we could say, or too meandering — but it is still a film that I would not have missed for the world.”
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