Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
Cast
Klaus Kinski
Fitzcarraldo
Claudia Cardinale
Molly
José Lewgoy
Don Aquilino
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Cholo
Paul Hittscher
Orinoco Paul
Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
Huerequeque
Grande Otelo
Station Master
Peter Berling
Opera Manager
David Pérez Espinosa
Campa Chief
Milton Nascimento
Opera House Blackman
Ruy Polanah
Rubber Baron
Salvador Godínez
Old Missionary
Dieter Milz
Young Missionary
William Rose
Notary
Leoncio Bueno
Unknown
Veriano Luchetti
Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani (voice)
Costante Moret
Opera 'Ernani' - Ernani
Dimiter Petkov
Opera 'Ernani' - Silva
Mietta Sighele
Opera 'Ernani' - Elvira (voice)
Lourdes Magalhães
Opera 'Ernani' - Orchestra Pit Singer
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Opera 'Ernani' - Sarah Bernhardt
Isabel Jiménez de Cisneros
Opera 'I puritani' - Doña Elvira
Liborio Simonella
Opera 'I puritani' - Arturo
Jesus Goiri
Opera 'I puritani' - Giorgio
Christian Mantilla
Opera 'I puritani' - Walton
Crew
Werner Herzog
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Editor
Thomas Mauch
Director of Photography
Jorge Vignati
Assistant Director
Walter Saxer
Executive Producer
Lucki Stipetić
Producer
Renzo Rossellini
Associate Producer
Gustavo Cerff Arbulú
Production Assistant
Ulrich Bergfelder
Production Design
Henning von Gierke
Production Design
Beat Presser
Assistant Camera, Still Photographer
Gisela Storch
Costume Designer
Gloria Fava
Hair Designer, Makeup Designer
Stefano Fava
Hair Designer, Makeup Designer
Juarez Dagoberto Costa
Sound
Zezé d'Alice
Sound
Miguel Vázquez
Special Effects
Popol Vuh
Original Music Composer
Raimund Wirner
Gaffer
Hans-Peter Vogt
Gaffer
George Sluizer
Production Manager
Nancy Ríos
Production Secretary
Claire André
Production Secretary
José Koechlin von Stein
Thanks
Les Blank
Thanks
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