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Les BlankCinematography:
Les BlankCast:
Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Mick Jagger, José Lewgoy, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez (more)VOD (2)
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For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete the most ambitious and difficult film of his career-Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made all the more perilous by Herzog's determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of natives to pull a full-sized, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Werner Herzog
German Empire
Best movies:
Home from Home - Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Klaus Kinski
Best movies:
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Claudia Cardinale
Tunisia
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
History (1986) (TV movie)
Jason Robards
USA
Best movies:
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 (2006) (video compilation)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Philadelphia (1993)
Mick Jagger
UK
Best movies:
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live (2015) (concert)
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) (TV movie)
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 (2015) (concert)
José Lewgoy
Brazil
Best movies:
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Entranced Earth (1967)
Paul Hittscher
Best movies:
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez
Best movies:
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
David Pérez Espinosa
Best movies:
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Walter Saxer
Best movies:
Bierkampf (1977)