“FITZCARRALDO is one of the great visions of the cinema, and one of the great follies.”
—Roger Ebert

“Few motion pictures have captured the frenzied power of obsession with as much veracity.”
—Deep Focus Review

“The preeminent testament of Herzog’s labor as a filmmaker.”
—Slant 

One of the screen’s great portraits of obsession. Klaus Kinski plays Fitzcarraldo, whose dream of building an opera house to rival Europe’s best in the middle of the Peruvian jungle leads him to try and make one big score. One sequence in the film was so insanely difficult to achieve that the whole enterprise becomes charged with a madness akin to that of the story’s protagonist.