Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 West German surreal adventuredrama film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays wouldbe rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon Basin. The film is derived from the historic events of Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald.
Fitzcarraldo explores entering the rubber business. A helpful rubber baron points out on a map the only remaining unclaimed parcel in the area. He explains that while it is located on the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon, it is cut off from the Amazon and access to Atlantic ports by a lengthy section of rapids. Fitzcarraldo sees that the Pachitea River, another Amazon tributary, comes within several hundred meters of the Ucayali upstream of the parcel. He plans to investigate that.He leases the inaccessible parcel from the government. His paramour, Molly Claudia Cardinale, a successful brothel owner, funds his purchase of an old steamship which he christens the SS Molly Aida. After recruiting a crew, he takes off up the Pachitea, the parallel river. This river has dangerous interior areas because of its indigenous people hostile to outsiders. Fitzcarraldo plans to go to the closest point between the two rivers and, with the manpower of impressed natives who are nearly enslaved by many rubber companies, physically pull his threestory, 320ton steamer over the muddyhillside across a portage from one river to the next. Using the steamer, he will collect rubber produced on the upper Ucayali and bring it down the Pachitea and the Amazon to market at Atlantic ports. ........
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