The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
Cast
Candace Laughlin
Self - Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog
Self - Filmmaker
Klaus Kinski
Self - Actor
Claude Cardinale
Self - Actress
Alfredo de Río Tambo
Self
Ángela Reina
Self
Carmen Correa
Self
Elia de Río Ene
Self
David Pérez Espinosa
Self - Actor
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Self - Actor
Mariano Gagnon
Self - Missionary
Paul Hittscher
Self - Actor
Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
Self - Actor
Evaristo Nunkuag Ikanan
Self
José Lewgoy
Self - Actor
Laplace Martins
Self - Civil Engineer
Thomas Mauch
Self - DOP
Nelson de Río Cenepa
Self
Walter Saxer
Self - Producer
Jorge Vignati
Self
Pacho Lane
Self - Interviewer
Michael Goodwin
Self - Interviewer
Jason Robards
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Mick Jagger
Wilbur (archive footage)
Crew
Les Blank
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Maureen Gosling
Co-Director, Editor, Sound Recordist
Michael Goodwin
Writer, Assistant Camera, Sound Assistant
Chris Simon
Assistant Editor, Researcher
Andrea Sohn
Assistant Editor
Kathy Kline
Production Coordinator
David R. Loxton
Executive Producer
José Koechlin von Stein
Co-Producer
Pacho Lane
Assistant Camera
Mark Berger
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Volker Hinz
Still Photographer, Graphic Designer
Andy Freeberg
Still Photographer, Graphic Designer
Christian Piper
Still Photographer, Graphic Designer
Francisca Wentworth
Translator
Inez Reider
Translator
Richard Becker
Translator
Patricia Buchanan
Additional Photography
Sarah Tatterlee
Main Title Designer
John Lumsdaine
Researcher
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