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Fitzcarraldo [1982] [DVD]

DVD ~ Klaus Kinski
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher
  • Directors: Werner Herzog
  • Writers: Werner Herzog
  • Producers: Werner Herzog, Lucki Stipetic, Renzo Rossellini, Walter Saxer, Willi Segler
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language German
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 2 Sep 2002
  • Run Time: 157 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006CY8R
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 57,530 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Werner Herzog's lengthy 1982 fever dream is typical of the director's passion for boundless experience: the story concerns the title character's determination to open a shipping route over the Amazon as well as build an opera house (worthy of Caruso) at a river trading post. Klaus Kinski (star of Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God) plays the visionary/madman with a spooky dignity, and Herzog--as always--thrills to the mystic possibilities of filming where no one else would even think of placing a camera. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com


DVD Description

DVD Special Features:

Widescreen (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs
Audio commentary with Director Werner Herzog, Producer Lucki Stepic and journalist Norman Itill
Theatrical trailers
Stills gallery
Talent bios
Languages: Dolby Digital 5.1/Dolby 2.0 English, German with optional English subtitles

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars an european epic, 20 Jul 2000
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This review is from: Fitzcarraldo (Subtitled) [VHS] [1982] (VHS Tape)
fitzcarraldo is probably the most epic film ever to come out of europe.klaus kinski replaces mick jagger & jason robards in the lead role which he was born to play. borrowing loosely from herzog's previous 'aguirre' and conrads 'heart of darkness' this is by all accounts a truly stunning piece of film making. herzog's severely focused direction brings out all the intensity in his leading man and with the strugggle of controlling an indigenous population and the practicality of raising the ship makes fitzcarraldo a truly uplifting experience
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great film, however..., 18 Jul 2004
By A Customer
This is a fantastic film, but one small word of warning - the subtitling on the DVD edition is terrible. Jumpy and with large parts of conversation missing, the subtitles mar what is an otherwise flawless film, and as such I was forced to deduct a star in the rating.

I would still highly recommend this film, a dazzling picture about one man's overwelming desire to bring his vision to life - an opera house in the South American jungle.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent film, but a shame about the subtitling, 24 Jul 2006
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Nearly a quarter of a century on, Fitzcarraldo has lost none of its impact. One thing which makes it still stand out so much today is its reality - not the plot, which takes a small incident from forgotten history and exaggerates it into a grandiose epic on the reality of dreams, but the fact that, with the exception of what appears to be one superior model shot in the rapids sequence, everything you see is done for real. A real ship dragged over a real mountain by real extras in a real location. In the CGi era, it's almost like watching a documentary, with Herzog literally BECOMING Fitzcarraldo as he acts out his dreams for real.

For all the fireworks between Kinski and Herzog, they bring the best out of each other: Kinski is every inch the obsessed dreamer and you really believe he HAS to bring opera to the jungle in a way that you simply can't imagine Jason Robards pulling off (Robards left the film after falling ill: from the brief extracts of his scenes with Mick Jagger to appear in the documentary Burden of Dreams - not included on this disc but available separately from Criterion - it was a blessing in disguise for the film). What's more, by the end of the movie, you really feel that Fitzcarraldo has earned his small triumph, and the wondrous smiles on the faces of Kinski and Claudia Cardinale prove that cinema's greatest weapon is the human face.

It's just a shame that Anchor Bay's DVD misses several key lines in the subtitles from the superior German version, which meant skipping back the DVD to play it with the inferior English dub to catch the missing lines before switching back to German again, a sad blemish on an otherwise excellent disc.
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