Fitzcarraldo [import]

A legendary film for many reasons. The background to the making of Fitzcarraldo, the fighting between star Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog, the resulting masterpiece. All these combine to bring a vision to the screen unlike anything before or since.A crazy Irish adventurer (Kinski), searching for untapped rubber in the Amazon jungle, brings Caruso and Verdi to the tribes he encounters. Followed, stalked almost, by beautiful madam Molly (Claudia Cardinale) he enlists the help of Amazon tribesmen to lift his ship over a mountain to a parallel waterway.A monumental visual feast, astonishing performances and a feat of filmmaking unlikely to be seen again. Watch and wonder in awe.