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Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo is one of the greatest visions in the history of cinema - and also one of the greatest madness. Both complement each other splendidly and the one would probably not be possible without the other. Fitzcarraldo is the story of a madman who wants to build an opera in the jungle and therefore pulls a ship over a mountain. Werner Herzog had to do exactly the same for the film and succeeds Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose story inspired Herzog. Fitzcarraldo is a daring epic (after all, Herzog could have arranged it all with special effects). But - "This is not a plastic boat" (Herzog). Fitzcarraldo (Klaus Kinski) drives a group of Rainforest Indians to pull the ship over the hill and we feel right in the middle! If you want to know more about it, watch "Burden of Dreams" (1982) by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling, a documentary about the production of Fitzcarraldo. After watching the documentary you feel that this shoot did not leave any of the participants untouched. All are connected by the reverence for the jungle, which God (if there is one) must have created in anger... (Duke). We experience Fitzcarraldo and his lover (Claudia Cardinale) approaching from the emptiness of the jungle in a boat. Both come too late, they want to go to the opera! He has earned money with an ice machine and knows his future: He will indulge in wealth, build an opera in the jungle and Caruso will perform there. Fitzcarraldo buys a piece of land that is not connected to the river. It can only be reached by those who can cross a ship without water! It is this image of the ship being pulled over the mountain that Herzog inspired for Fitzcarraldo. The rest of the script just had to be adapted. The production story reads like a chain of accidents. The first location was on the border between Peru and Ecuador and could therefore not be used in 1982. At first Jason Robards and Mick Jagger were to be cast, but both jumped off (luckily, because who could imagine Jagger in Fitzcarraldo?). Klaus Kinski is the better choice for the same reason as for a real ship: Kinski is really crazy and doesn't have to play. His anger seems almost demonic - how could anyone do that? Contrary to plan, Herzog and his team had to film in the rainforest - several kilometres away from the next town. A member of the crew only survived a snake bite by amputating his own foot. Meanwhile, Kinski Herzog is yelling at him most of the time (we see this in Herzog's documentary My best fiend. Fortunately, Fitzcarraldo hasn't become a perfect movie, but an overwhelming one! Herzog doesn't even try to push his story; he is looking for pictures! The scene, as the ship breaks loose, would have degenerated into a noisy action sequence with another director. With Herzog it slips slowly, enormously and all the more fox-influencing. Is there even a more passionate and adventurous director than him? In every big Herzog movie a passionate man challenges the wilderness. Over and over again! Producers asked Herzog if it wasn't wiser to drop the difficult project. Herzog was echauffierten over the question: A man, who dropped a project like this, he would have to live on as a man without dreams. He would rather die than exist like this! Not only the ship and Kinski are real, but Herzog is also a true Fitzcarraldo! Over and over again!