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Werner Herzog is the reigning champ of impossible real-life adventures undertaken in the name of cinema. And this masterpiece is 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.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 river boat over a mountain.
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