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Michael Goodwin (narration)
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Release Date:
1 October 1982 (Netherlands) more
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A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic 'Fitzcarraldo' , showing how the film... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 1 nomination more
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Cast

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Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez ... Himself (as Huerequeque Bohorquez)

Claudia Cardinale ... Molly / Herself
Carmen Correa ... Herself
Nelson De Rio Cenepa ... Himself
Elia De Rio Ene ... Himself
Alfredo De Rio Tambo ... Himself
Miguel Ángel Fuentes ... Himself
Father Mariano Gagnon ... Himself

Werner Herzog ... Himself
Paul Hittscher ... Himself
Evaristo Nunkuag Ikanan ... Himself

Mick Jagger ... Wilbur
Klaus Kinski ... Fitzcarraldo / Himself

José Lewgoy ... Himself
Laplace Martins ... Himself
Thomas Mauch ... Himself
David Pérez Espinosa ... Himself
Ángela Reina ... Herself

Jason Robards ... Fitzcarraldo
Walter Saxer ... Himself
Jorge Vignati ... Himself
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95 min
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Werner Herzog: [On the jungle] Kinski always says it's full of erotic elements. I don't see it so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and... more
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Walls in the Jungle, 7 June 2008
Author: tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com) from Virginia Beach

Here's a remarkable phenomenon.

"Fitzcarraldo" is to my measure a special film, meaning that it evokes in me a profound and lasting response. Indeed, I have it on my list of films you really must see (if you take me seriously). Elsewhere, I have celebrated this filmmaker, and how the twists in his being seem to (at least in this period) have created work that matters.

This is a documentary on the making of that film. Its made by a good filmmaker himself. It tells the tale, an interesting story. And it features two segments of Herzog on the scene, speaking coherently and somewhat poetically of the disruption that is the jungle. Its disturbing in its own right.

So what's wrong? Something significant, I think. Watching this takes much of the richness, the lush smell, out of "Fitz."

It explains it. It flattens it. It surrounds it with a story that is clear and thus takes away the space it naturally has for us to surround it with our own story.

Not all great art works this way, but some apparently does: it designates holes that we readily fill with ourselves and stitch together with the story our life might have been, or might not have. The design of "Fitz" is such that it contrasts the real (meaning "natural") with the stylized (meaning "civilized"). It has a simple spine that we can read and ignore while we understand instead the invisible lace of inner lust, lonely desire.

We need the space that surrounds it. We need the madness, the jungle, the lack of containing story. Its what we fill in with the jumble of our own jungles.

Seeing this takes away the experience of "Fitz." Its not just another case of an encounter with a filmmaker being less rewarding than an encounter with his (her) film. Its a matter of story walls where there shouldn't be.

Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

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