Film· 1982· Adventure

Fitzcarraldo

by Werner Herzog

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Animation · 2009

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A Pixar employee compared the scene of Carl hauling his house through the jungle to Fitzcarraldo and The Mission, and Docter watched both.

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  • Amazon rubber boom

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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Fitzcarraldo

The film stars Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irish would-be rubber baron known in Peru as "Fitzcarraldo", who is determined to transport a steamship over a mountain in the Amazon rainforest and thereby access a rich rubber territory, with the ultimate goal of using the wealth to build an opera house in the area. The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once had a disassembled steamboat transported over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald by natives.

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