Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO
Sun, Sep 22
|Epsilon Spires
"Only Dreamers Move Mountains!" To celebrate the new 4k restoration of BURDEN OF DREAMS, join us for FITZCARRALDO (1982), Klaus Kinski stars in Herzog’s most legendary feat of filmmaking folly, the meta-film masterpiece that illuminates colonialism with surrealism in both it's process and form.
Time & Location
Sep 22, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:15 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
FITZCARRALDO (Directed by Werner Herzog, Starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy In German, Spanish and Asháninka with English subtitles, 157 min.)
A famously audacious Herzog project that depicts the story of Fitzcarraldo fictionalizes the mad, true-life mission of South American rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald to establish an opera house in the Peruvian jungle—which can only be accomplished by hauling a gigantic riverboat over a mountain. No special effects here—this is the real deal, with the impossible results executed before your eyes. Fitzcarraldo is an astonishing and totally consuming meta-vision of man’s ambition.
The romantic flipside to Aguirre, the Wrath of God—a backbreaking epic that ecstatically treads the line between a portrait of madness and a genuine expression of obsession filmed a decade before, Werner Herzog returned with Klaus Kinski to the Peruvian jungle for another tale of mad, monumental obsession—and indulged in some loony, now-legendary obsessiveness of his…