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.

Klaus Kinski
as Fitzcarraldo

Claudia Cardinale
as Molly

José Lewgoy
as Don Aquilino

Miguel Ángel Fuentes
as Cholo

Paul Hittscher
as Orinoco Paul

Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
as Huerequeque

Grande Otelo
as Station Master

Peter Berling
as Opera Manager

David Pérez Espinosa
as Campa Chief

Milton Nascimento
as Opera House Blackman
Wuchak
_**Apocalypse Now in the Amazon headwaters**_ Called Fitzcarraldo by the Indians, an Irishman (Klaus Kinski) living in Iquitos, Peru, dreams of bringing Grand Opera to the jungle city in the Amazon Basin. It’s the early 1900s and there’s a rubber boom. To fund his dream he decides to exploit a co...
CinemaSerf
Klaus Kinski is great as the eponymous, slightly maniacal, opera lover who decides that his love of Verdi, Bellini and Puccini needs to be shared with his mid-jungle community. He realises that to do that, he must have cash - and that's only to be found if he can manage to tap into the rubber trees ...