Fitzcarraldo

Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski worked together many times, but rarely - if ever - to better effect than in this tale of a South American opera fan.

The movie is imperfect, but transcendent; this story could not have been filmed on this location in this way and been perfect without being less of a film.

The hauling of the boat is the poetic and symbolic heart of the movie and no camera trickery is used in its filming. This is a real steamship being hauled over a real mountain...