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GERMANY · 1982
Fitzcarraldo
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Synopsis
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.
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I had seen Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo as a teenager and had this fascination for Herzog. I love him, and I think he’s one of the greatest directors of all time, and those films are part of the landscape of the jungle in cinema. Apocalypse Now also. So I think for me, it was more like, I had a great respect for what he had done. But at the same time, I knew it wasn’t the way I wanted to approach the jungle. I wanted to approach it from the perspective of the indigenous, not from t
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