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Adventure. Drama
Brian Fitzgerald "Fitzcarraldo", an eccentric and megalomaniac businessman obsessed with opera, has been losing his prestige and fortune in absurd ventures with no future. His latest project is to build an opera house in a Peruvian village on the banks of the Amazon; to raise the capital necessary to finance such a grand enterprise, he dedicates himself to the rubber trade. His extravagant plan requires taking a large riverboat out of ... [+]
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November 18, 2008
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Un esperpéntico melómano está decidido a cumplir su particular sueño: contruir una ópera para poder escuchar a su idolatrado Caruso ¡En lo alto de la selva andina!. Con este pretexto se inicia una larga y tortuosa odisea por agua y por tierra, mostrándonos la grandiosidad de la selva peruana. El film recuerda y mucho a "Aguirre, la cólera de Dios", no solo por la gran interpretación de Kinski, sino también por el protagonismo de una basta selva parece engullir a los protagonistas.