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Les BlankCast:
Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Mick Jagger, José Lewgoy, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez (more)VOD (3)
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For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete the most ambitious and difficult film of his career-Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made all the more perilous by Herzog's determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of natives to pull a full-sized, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. (official distributor synopsis)
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“If I abandon this project, I would be a man without dreams and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life, with this project.“ A riveting look at the making of one of the most challenging films in the history of cinema, Fitzcarraldo, directed by one of the most skilful filmmakers who never compromised artistically or creatively, Werner Herzog. The idea of carrying a 60-ton steamboat over a mountain ridge with a 40% gradient, in the middle of the Peruvian jungle, 2000 miles from the nearest civilization, was a real challenge that Herzog fought doggedly for 4 years, despite the risk of human casualties. Herzog might come out as an intransigent fanatic, but his witty philosophical monologues towards the end of the film make it clear that this eminent filmmaker had and has his head screwed on straight, whatever you think of him and his work.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the making of Fitzcarraldo, but were afraid to ask. A very interesting documentary that maps the problematic realisation of Herzog’s unforgettable film. Also worth mentioning is this brilliant documentary about Herzog’s relationship with Kinski.
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