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History influenced Fitzcarraldo
Added by Media Influence Map · 14 October 2026
- Amazon rubber boom
The evidence
Herzog's film draws on the rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who had a steamship carried across an isthmus in the Peruvian Amazon.
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