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  • Actors: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale
  • Directors: Werner Herzog
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Language German
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 21 May 2007
  • Run Time: 151 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000P0JPZ6
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,639 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Director Werner Herzog returns to the exotic locales and obsessive themes of previous works in his Amazon masterpiece, FITZCARRALDO. Klaus Kinski gives a terrifying and determined portrayal of mad genius Fitzcarraldo, whose twin goals of making a fortune off the Amazon rubber trade and bringing an opera house to the jungle give the film its crushing centerpiece--the maniacal leader's Sisyphean efforts at hauling a gigantic steamship over a mountain bank. The single-minded and wickedly energetic Fitzcarraldo moves mountains (and a boat) with his will and along the way acts out a stunning and emotional battle between man and nature, as in the similarly themed Herzog/Kinski collaboration AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD.
Herzog's razor-sharp attention to the minutiae of both Fitzcarraldo's madness and the jungle's corresponding apathy and enormity makes the film a breathtaking metaphor for civilization's impact on the natural world. The documentary style of the film (the cast and crew actually hauled the boat over the mountain) gives the tale an urgency and suspense that, combined with Kinski's bravado performance and Herzog's striking sense of landscape, make FITZCARRALDO an unforgettable experience.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Moving mountains, 8 Jun 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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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, 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 Starz' 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.

Unlike the previous release from Anchor Bay (Starz is the company's new name rather than a new label), this edition does come with the famous feature-length documentary about the making of the film, Burden of Dreams, although none of that film's copious extras to be found on the US Criterion DVD.

Following the astonishing trail of disasters Werner Herzog faced making Fitzcarraldo on location in Peru - including tribal wars, a seriously ill Jason Robards' departure after 40% of the film had been shot, one ship running aground due to low rainfalls and another obstinately refusing to move up the mountain - Les Blank's famous and once groundbreaking documentary has dated badly.

It's an excellent portrait of Herzog's obsession and the growing madness surrounding the shoot, but it's more a catalogue of catastrophes rather than a candid view of the shoot: although unused footage was shot of Kinski's tantrums (and can be seen in Herzog's documentary My Best Fiend, not included here), the star and director's relationship is all but ignored and you tend to get the feel of a superior travelog giving the official version (a lot of the other real crises happen offscreen). There's plenty of absurdity on view, such as prostitutes being brought to the native workers camp on the advice of the local Catholic missionary, but 'Hearts of Darkness' it ain't. But you can't help but admire the way that, unlike Fitzcarraldo, who falls prey to the dreams of the natives he thinks are working for him, Herzog manages to cling on to his dreams and ultimately triumph, incorporating each new on-set disaster into his film.

An excellent companion piece to 'Fitzcarraldo,' but it probably has less appeal to those not so interested in the film.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Faulty subtitles and bonus disc, 18 Jun 2009
By S. Palmer - See all my reviews
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The subtitles on this DVD are faulty. Often whole sentences are omitted, making it impossible to follow conversations. The beginning of a sentence is nearly always present, but after it ends, with an ellipsis, the subsequent subtitle doesn't appear, even though a character continues talking. This happens regularly throughout the film and quickly renders it incoherent.

The problem with the bonus disc, which contains the Burden of Dreams documentary, is more superficial. The icon which is supposed to show you which option you are choosing is absent from the main menu, and it appears in the wrong places on the scene selection menu, e.g. half on the picture of a scene and half off of it.

I had to return this DVD because of its subtitle problem. I contacted the DVD's maker, Anchor Bay, about its faults but didn't receive a response.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars but.............., 28 Mar 2008
By James B. Spink "Jim" (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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I first saw Fitzcarraldo in the early eighties as part of a Channel 4 series on the German New Wave Cinema. Plenty of Herzog and Fassbinder! Fitzcarraldo really stood out as I hadn't seen anything quite like it before or, for that matter, since. The image of the steamship going up the slope was unique.

Although I was looking forward to seeing the film again on this DVD I must say that the impact the second time around was much less than I expected. It is undoubtedly a five star film, but I wish in a way I had left the memory alone. The accompanying documentary feature from Les Blank only succeeded in removing more of the magic from my memory of the film.

Perhaps it needs a cinema showing to get the full effect of the scale, or perhaps I've become jaded by years of CGI, I don't know. Unfortunately all I tend to remember of the film now are the annoying bits rather than the majestic images I had before!
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