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.

• DirectorWerner Herzog
• Release2 March 1982
• Genre
  Drama / Adventure
• Duration2h 37m
• Budget$7,362,000
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  7.634
  788 reviews
• Productions

  Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, ZDF, Wildlife Films Peru, Filmverlag der Autoren