158 mins |
Rated
PG (Low level violence)
Directed by Werner Herzog
Starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Playing as part of Academy Cinema's 40th Birthday Bash November 14th-20th!
$5 tickets for Academy Members
$10 tickets General Admission
“There has never been another movie like it … A film in the great tradition of grandiose cinematic visions, like Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW or Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.”
[Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times]
A decade after AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD, Werner Herzog returned with Klaus Kinski to the Peruvian jungle for another tale of mad, monumental obsession—and indulged in some loony, now-legendary obsessiveness of his own!
Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle in Peru. One resident of the small town, 'Fitzcarraldo', as the natives call him, dreams of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great celebration of Grand Opera. To finance this fantastic dream, Fitzcarraldo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayala Falls. To circumvent this barrier, he literally has his huge steamboat lifted over a mountain from one branch of the river to the other. With the aid of a tribe of Indians bewitched by the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Enrico Caruso, Fitzcarraldo fights fever, mosquitoes and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible.
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Playing as part of Academy Cinema's 40th Birthday Bash November 14th-20th!
$5 tickets for Academy Members
$10 tickets General Admission
“There has never been another movie like it … A film in the great tradition of grandiose cinematic visions, like Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW or Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.”
[Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times]
A decade after AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD, Werner Herzog returned with Klaus Kinski to the Peruvian jungle for another tale of mad, monumental obsession—and indulged in some loony, now-legendary obsessiveness of his own!
Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle in Peru. One resident of the small town, 'Fitzcarraldo', as the natives call him, dreams of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great celebration of Grand Opera. To finance this fantastic dream, Fitzcarraldo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayala Falls. To circumvent this barrier, he literally has his huge steamboat lifted over a mountain from one branch of the river to the other. With the aid of a tribe of Indians bewitched by the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Enrico Caruso, Fitzcarraldo fights fever, mosquitoes and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible.