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Fitzcarraldo
1982
· Movie
· 158 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #565
- IMDb #487
- Rotten Tomatoes #1109
- Letterboxd #346
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2218
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #366
Every rating
75–92
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 75, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
Details
- Director
- Werner Herzog
- Writer
- Werner Herzog
- Released
- 2 March 1982
- Country
- Germany, Peru
- Language
- German, Spanish, English, Shuar, Italian
- Runtime
- 158 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $7.4M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1983 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | West Germany | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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International Submission to the Academy Awards
1 nomination
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | West Germany | Nominee |