'Fitzcarraldo'
“We knew we could run into difficulties but that they could be so serious, we couldn’t imagine. We have been walking on a brink between two abysses, and we have still not fallen down, but it’s getting very, very narrow now. People have lost their lives. If I believed in the Devil, I would say that the Devil was right here, and is still right here. But I have no choice, I have to do this work. I live my life or I end my life with this project,” said the director of “Fitzcarraldo,” Werner Hertzog, in the Peruvian jungle in 1981, during the
making of the Him. Klaus Kinski (above) stars in the title role . of “Fitzcarraldo,” which will start tomorrow at the Academy. The film follows a turn-of-the-century rubber baron with an obsession to bring grand opera and a steam ferry to the Amazonian jungle of Peru. To complete “Fitzcarraldo,” Herzog had to overcome a host of obstacles, including landslides, floods, strikes, tribal wars, a plane crash, financial crises and the loss of his original stars, Jason Robards and Mick Jagger.
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Press, 3 May 1984, Page 15
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