Fitzcarraldo (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 13, 2015
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Klaus Kinski | |
Performer: | José Lewgoy, Claudia Cardinale & Miguel Angel Fuentes | |
Directed by | Werner Herzog | |
Edited by | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus | |
Music by | Popul Vuh | |
Screenwriting by | Werner Herzog | |
Cinematography by | Thomas Mauch | |
Produced by | Werner Herzog & Lucki Stipetic |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1982 -
Best Director: Werner Herzog
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/4 --
This botched, shapeless, gratuitous, ignoble, neo-colonialist film is so poorly made, written, edited, and directed that its centerpiece, its raison d'être -- the honest-to-God hauling of a boat up a mountain before your eyes -- is meaningless.
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Film Comment Magazine
Rating: 4/4 --
As a document of a quest and a dream, and as the record of man's audacity and foolish, visionary heroism, there has never been another movie like it.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The film may have been intended as an ironic comment on the absurdity of human ambition, but it's an irony that explodes in Herzog's face.
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Chicago Reader
...Spectacular....Exciting...
Sight and Sound
If you have a dream, the only way to accomplish it is to face it head on. If your dream requires you to drag a massive boat up a mountainside, do it. So says director Werner Herzog in the bizarre but captivating Fitzcarraldo.
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Movie Views
Rating: 4/4 --
Awesome, hypnotic storytelling, Fitzcarraldo finds this director working in top form
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Cinema Writer
Rating: 4/5 --
It's a stunning spectacle, an adventure-comedy not quite like any other, and the most benign movie ever made about 19th-century capitalism running amok.
New York Times
Product Description:
Director Werner Herzog returns to the exotic locales and obsessive themes of previous works in his Amazon masterpiece, FITZCARRALDO. Klaus Kinski gives a terrifying and determined portrayal of mad genius Fitzcarraldo, whose twin goals of making a fortune off the Amazon rubber trade and bringing an opera house to the jungle give the film its crushing centerpiece--the maniacal leader's Sisyphean efforts at hauling a gigantic steamship over a mountain bank. The single-minded and wickedly energetic Fitzcarraldo moves mountains (and a boat) with his will and along the way acts out a stunning and emotional battle between man and nature, as in the similarly themed Herzog/Kinski collaboration AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD.
Herzog's razor-sharp attention to the minutiae of both Fitzcarraldo's madness and the jungle's corresponding apathy and enormity makes the film a breathtaking metaphor for civilization's impact on the natural world. The documentary style of the film (the cast and crew actually hauled the boat over the mountain) gives the tale an urgency and suspense that, combined with Kinski's bravado performance and Herzog's striking sense of landscape, make FITZCARRALDO an unforgettable experience.
Herzog's razor-sharp attention to the minutiae of both Fitzcarraldo's madness and the jungle's corresponding apathy and enormity makes the film a breathtaking metaphor for civilization's impact on the natural world. The documentary style of the film (the cast and crew actually hauled the boat over the mountain) gives the tale an urgency and suspense that, combined with Kinski's bravado performance and Herzog's striking sense of landscape, make FITZCARRALDO an unforgettable experience.
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