(Federal Republic of Germany 1981)
directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Peter Berling
colour, 157', 35mm, Italian dubbed version
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, known as Fitzcarraldo, has a mad dream: he wants to build a Grand Opera house in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest. In order to do that, he has to defy both Nature and the area's indigenous community, by pulling a boat up the side of a hill. Four years of shootings, deaths, injuries to crew members, and gigantic financial problems: the result is Herzog's most visionary work. The director said: "If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don't want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project".

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Sala Cinema

Entrance on mid floor of the staircase in via Milano 9A