Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 157 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany, Peru
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
- peru
- plantation
- ambition
- amazon rainforest
- steamboat
- south america
- opera house
- riverboat
- quest
- 19th century
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Paul Hittscher — Orinoco Paul
- Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez — Huerequeque
- Grande Otelo — Station Master
- Peter Berling — Opera Manager
- David Pérez Espinosa — Campa Chief
- Milton Nascimento — Opera House Blackman
- Ruy Polanah — Rubber Baron
- Salvador Godínez — Old Missionary
- Dieter Milz — Young Missionary
- William Rose — Notary
- Leoncio Bueno
- Directed
- Werner Herzog
- Written
- Werner Herzog
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 914 ratings
- Studio
- Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, ZDF, Wildlife Films Peru, Filmverlag der Autoren
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
