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Fitzcarraldo

Dare to dream the impossible.

7.6(934)19822h 37m4

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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Status
Released
Budget
$7.4M
Box office
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Language
English
  • peru
  • plantation
  • ambition
  • amazon rainforest
  • steamboat
  • south america
  • opera house
  • riverboat
  • quest
  • 19th century
  • imperialism
  • iquitos, peru

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Germany, Peru

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG10 Oct 1982
  • United KingdomGB

    • PhysicalPG19 Jan 2015
  • BelgiumBE

    • TVAL2 Mar 1982
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical24 Jan 1983
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereBeijing International Film Festival19 Apr 2026
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical (limited)152 Mar 1982
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-162 Mar 1982
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP2 May 1982
    • PremiereCannes Film Festival21 May 1982
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical12West Germany4 Mar 1982
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical23 Nov 1982
  • MexicoMX

    • TheatricalB2 Mar 1982
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical129 Sept 1982
    • Physical124 Nov 2010

Frequently asked questions

Fitzcarraldo was released on 2 March 1982.

Audience reviews

2
  • W

    Wuchak

    9/13/2020

    8/10

    _**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 considerable area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayali Falls. To get to this remote area he incredibly ha…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    1/26/2024

    7/10

    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 deep into the Amazon. To that end, he and local hostess "Molly" (the sparingly featured Claudia Cardinale) manage to scr…

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