# Fitzcarraldo (1982)

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**Runtime**: 157 min
**Genres**: Drama, Adventure
**Directed by**: Werner Herzog
**Written by**: Werner Herzog
**Starring**: Klaus Kinski, Claude Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez

> *Dare to dream the impossible.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Aguirre without madness. An opera-obsessed colonialist schemes to harvest rubber by hauling a steamship over a small mountain. Kinski's thousand-yard stare sells the mad dream.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, epic, outsider, slow-burn

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