Summary of Fitzcarraldo.
7/19/2010
The Movie Fitzcarraldo is a film directed and produced by a German filmmaker Werner Herzog.The story of an obsessed impresario whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America.In order to raise the money for the opera house, Fitzcarraldo buys a broken down steamboat and plans to sail it up a tributary off the Amazon, pull the boat over a mountain and drop it into a neighboring tributary, so he can access the wealth of rubber trees there. To get there, though,he will have to brave raging rapids and tribes of hostile natives that are known to make shrunken heads out of foreign intruders.
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