Fitzcarraldo: The Un-Making of a Masterpiece

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Throughout film history many movies are remembered for having been produced in very complicated conditions. Perhaps one of the most famous examples is Werner Herzog’s gonzo masterpiece Fitzcarraldo.
Fitzcarraldo tells the story of a rubber merchant who wants to build an opera house in the middle of the Amazon jungle. No doubt, it’s a crazy plan. And almost as crazy as shooting the movie itself. While shooting the film, problems on set multiplied and the history of its production is now infamous. Is it because of the many fights between Klaus Kinski, and Herzog, as well as the cast crew? Maybe it all started when Jason Robards dropped out as the leading actor shortly into filming. Or maybe it’s because Herzog insisted on pulling a 300 ton riverboat over a hill. The misfortunes experienced by the crew were many, but it’s undeniable that the film turned out to be one of the most memorable works in cinematic history.
Watch Now: Werner Herzog’s masterpiece, Fitzcarraldo, along with many more of his films, here on Fandor.

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  • @paulosantiago7457
    @paulosantiago74574 жыл бұрын

    Klaus Kinski with all those bursts of anger somehow still managed to make his character a likeable person. He was indeed a great actor.

  • @sebastianalegria3401

    @sebastianalegria3401

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've always wondered, what would have happened, if Herzog had killed Kinski?

  • @franosbornblaschke3694

    @franosbornblaschke3694

    2 жыл бұрын

    Like a 1920's expressionist in the 1980's....?

  • @mclekrell

    @mclekrell

    Жыл бұрын

    Hahaha what? The worst actor ever.

  • @richardleston5237

    @richardleston5237

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mclekrell 😂

  • @stevencoffin328

    @stevencoffin328

    Жыл бұрын

    On top of that he comes across as likeable but at the same time incredibly unhinged.

  • @tomitiustritus6672
    @tomitiustritus66723 жыл бұрын

    At one point, the movie set was raided by a hunting party from a nearby tribe, leading to several injured people. That this is just a footnote in the crazyness of this project says a lot.

  • @Kenopsyaa

    @Kenopsyaa

    Жыл бұрын

    The nearby tribe was the one they were trying to force into being part of the movie. Herzog and his crew invited themselves into indigenous land, forcing them to participate, the indigenous tribe had to attack them in order to regain their land. They found another tribe, a more peaceful one. And it wasn’t just “several injured”, people died, especially indigenous people who were treated as slaves and less than human. Herzog should be rotting in jail for the crimes he committed

  • @Etendard1708

    @Etendard1708

    Жыл бұрын

    Anything involving Kinski & Herzog was always crazy.. except Woyzeck, the production of this film is normal

  • @Kenopsyaa

    @Kenopsyaa

    11 ай бұрын

    @@AR-GuidesAndMore My dad was there, there's an article about it in french. I"m not just inventing things, they put my dad in jail for 2 months because he was helping the indigenous tribe.

  • @plasticweapon

    @plasticweapon

    11 ай бұрын

    @@AR-GuidesAndMore are you psychopath or are you just retarded?

  • @sp-yj5wr

    @sp-yj5wr

    10 ай бұрын

    Many who say they love this movie seem to only talk about the hardships and crazyness of making the movie...and I agree. The movie by itself is just some rich idiot trying to push a boat over a mountain, so not much of a story or point to it. Watching the documentaries beforehand makes watching the movie a better experience.

  • @kamuelalee
    @kamuelalee2 жыл бұрын

    You know your lead actor is a real problem when the locals offer to kill your lead actor. Still the film is an amazing piece of cinema.

  • @gerardolombana

    @gerardolombana

    5 ай бұрын

    in the documentary Mein Liebster Feind, the locals say that they actually more afriad of herzog hahaha

  • @MrSmokodoki
    @MrSmokodoki2 жыл бұрын

    Herzog has said that making this film was total madness, I bet that Kinski was 70% of that madness.

  • @MENFUSSMIKE

    @MENFUSSMIKE

    Жыл бұрын

    80%

  • @tachikomakusanagi3744

    @tachikomakusanagi3744

    Жыл бұрын

    170%

  • @blondeboywilson9221

    @blondeboywilson9221

    Жыл бұрын

    No anyone would quit or go crazy working for Herzog.

  • @sebastianalegria3401
    @sebastianalegria34014 жыл бұрын

    I imagine the shooting of this movie was as complicated as Apocalypse Now, besides, I realized that making a movie is stressful and at the same time funnny

  • @_pascalwittwer

    @_pascalwittwer

    2 жыл бұрын

    Funny enough, Apocalypse now was inspired by Aguirre, the wrath of god.

  • @Kenopsyaa

    @Kenopsyaa

    Жыл бұрын

    Funny ???? He killed many indigenous people in order to make this fucking movie

  • @Johnconno

    @Johnconno

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@_pascalwittwerStroll On.

  • @roughcutretrospect7235
    @roughcutretrospect72352 жыл бұрын

    What a FASCINATING film. I read that the ship was just left in the woods? Would be interesting to see if its still there or what it looks like today. I would imagine ppl living in it for shelter or disassembling it for scrap.

  • @sg2401

    @sg2401

    Жыл бұрын

    On wikipedia page of the movie Fitzcarraldo, you get to see the picture of the remains of the steamer used in the movie.

  • @roughcutretrospect7235

    @roughcutretrospect7235

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sg2401 yessssss!

  • @garrison6863
    @garrison68639 ай бұрын

    Herzog was really lucky to get Kinski and Cardinale. They were both good, especially the former. Kinski with that white suit and popped up blonde hair was an almost iconic image to be in the jungle. He was so much better than Robards could have been. So much manic energy.

  • @authenticbitterleben7434
    @authenticbitterleben74345 жыл бұрын

    When it comes to Werner Herzog / Klaus Kinski movies I think Aguirre is better. Here in Germany Kinski is often made fun of and there's the notion that fitzcarraldo is only popular because of kinskis insane behaviour

  • @MrFusselig

    @MrFusselig

    5 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @StockAvuryah

    @StockAvuryah

    4 жыл бұрын

    Too bad it's not popular in Germany because they moved a boat up across a fucking hill in the fucking amazonian jungle. But it should be remembered because it's a great film, also.

  • @gabrielhorvat9398

    @gabrielhorvat9398

    3 жыл бұрын

    @milster deforestation i guess; pretty hard to watch the jungle being destroyed, but i guess times where different then. The movie is amazing anyways.

  • @MalAnders94

    @MalAnders94

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gabrielhorvat9398 maybe in the future we'll be happy that we cut down the forest. Afterall that's where all the snakes and spiders come from..

  • @katiequeen7225

    @katiequeen7225

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MalAnders94 what the actual fuck? nothing good will ever come from getting rid of the amazon rain forest, only problems. and the worst snakes and spiders don't even come from there

  • @vb2388
    @vb23885 жыл бұрын

    My Top 5 from Werner Herzog.. 1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 2. Fitzcarraldo 3. The Grizzly Man 4. Nosferatu the Vampyre 5. Stroszek

  • @pete49327

    @pete49327

    5 жыл бұрын

    Grizzly Man has to be the best documentary/movie ever made.

  • @vb2388

    @vb2388

    5 жыл бұрын

    I loved Crumb and The Act of Killing slightly more..

  • @turusso

    @turusso

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agree, Aguirre is better.

  • @El_Damaso

    @El_Damaso

    5 жыл бұрын

    1 Fitzcarraldo 2 Cobra Verde 3 Aguirre 4 Nosferatu 5 woyzek

  • @riccardoangeli802

    @riccardoangeli802

    4 жыл бұрын

    Woyzeck

  • @CameronBrtnik
    @CameronBrtnik4 жыл бұрын

    Just watched this, you can find the full movie good quality on KZread and wow, one of the best movies ever made. I recently read Papillon (if you haven't do yourself a favour and read it), which lead my friend to recommend Lost City of Z (another adventure classic) where it mentioned the opera house in the Amazon. I watched the movie (terrible) but there's brief scene where Fawcett comes upon the opera house in the jungle. We did some research and discovered this movie, and wow I'm glad I did! Just beautiful

  • @Samir12357

    @Samir12357

    Жыл бұрын

    Could you give me the video link

  • @frankblangeard8865
    @frankblangeard88653 жыл бұрын

    The real story is of a man named Carlos Fitzcarrald. The ship was dismantled and carried over the hill piece by piece.

  • @sergioalves9484
    @sergioalves94844 жыл бұрын

    Foi filmado uma parte na nossa cidade, Manaus, e no teatro Amazonas. Cláudia Cardinale participou. Muito bom.

  • @josevinicius6908

    @josevinicius6908

    4 жыл бұрын

    Só não foi bom pros índios e o pessoal que morreu KKK

  • @celdur4635
    @celdur46353 жыл бұрын

    FYI, on the times of the Rubber boom, in Perú, in the city of Iquitos there were opulent opera houses, ofc, ppl were flown in.

  • @OBGynKenobi
    @OBGynKenobi4 жыл бұрын

    Kinsky owns the best angry rant on the internet! Bar none. His Jesus rant is also masterful.

  • @BlueVansCapofAwesome
    @BlueVansCapofAwesome4 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos so much.

  • @riccardoangeli802
    @riccardoangeli8024 жыл бұрын

    Kinsky fenomenale .... Il più intenso inquietante e geniale attore mai esistito .... Herzogh grande regista !!!!!

  • @GeorgeH99
    @GeorgeH995 жыл бұрын

    What is the name of the background piece playing, it’s bugging me.

  • @hugh-johnfleming289
    @hugh-johnfleming2894 жыл бұрын

    That "divine madness." After I watched 'Paris, Texas' I was not sure if I even liked it at all and then it would not get out of my head for weeks. Never watched it again and, like this film, it remains indelible.

  • @shieldsluck1969

    @shieldsluck1969

    4 жыл бұрын

    'Paris Texas' was been directed by Wim Wenders. (FYI) :)

  • @MisterWin

    @MisterWin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shieldsluck1969 He was just comparing the two.

  • @shieldsluck1969

    @shieldsluck1969

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@MisterWin Wenders, Fassbinder, Herzog und Werner Schroeter are back in the 70s and 80s a kind of "outlaws" in the German film business. But just the good ones from today's perspective. 🎞😉

  • @MisterWin

    @MisterWin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shieldsluck1969 I am woefully uninformed with Fassbinder's catalogue. Will check him out!

  • @faintscrawl

    @faintscrawl

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think Kinski's daughter is in Paris, T.

  • @RJ_MacReady13
    @RJ_MacReady1310 ай бұрын

    A masterpiece, I love the movie, but I imagine the madness it was to shoot it

  • @liltick102
    @liltick102 Жыл бұрын

    Herzog didn’t make 2 planes crash. He didn’t place the snake under the tree the woodworker was in. He didn’t have anything to do with the woman who took a canoe without asking, and drowned. The guy who got a spear through his throat was also explained to little blame to be placed as hard as it has been on Herzog. Mistreating animals, and ever having a pregnant woman on this boat is really all anyone reaally has on him as far as I know - and terrible luck when it comes to deaths during production that are blamed entirely on him.

  • @Maggot39967

    @Maggot39967

    4 ай бұрын

    You say all of that like it's true. He wanted to make the movie and he made the movie. All actions listed just came as a consequence of doing the movie. This stuff will be looked at differently within the next few years. It was just a rich white dude forcing his way into a country he really didn't need to go to and doing everything the hardest way possible causing deaths and many other tragedies that could have been avoided if they just oh I don't know, shot the movie in a more reasonable location or provided much more funding for doing something as dangerous as sailing a boat down the amazon river. He even openly admits that they segregated the camp and ate their own food and so on and so fourth. I'm not exactly saying he's the fucking devil, but he's obviously made some poor discissions in the past and justifying it all as art is disingenuous. Just like it would be disingenuous for me to claim he's evil or something. Things were different and we can all acknowledge that. I just don't see how you can blame everyone but him for his own desires.

  • @podfuk

    @podfuk

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Maggot39967 you are dumb simpleton, enjoy staying at home on your dumb ass and doing nothing

  • @jmsmith1767
    @jmsmith17675 ай бұрын

    I love this movie. I actually really like Jason Robards I would’ve liked to see him in this film, but Klaus Kinskin is an utter lunatic and I’m here for it.

  • @gianlozano102
    @gianlozano1024 жыл бұрын

    Well I guess this film was made with blood, sweat and tears

  • @retuture6689
    @retuture66894 жыл бұрын

    Excelente

  • @KenobiStark1
    @KenobiStark1 Жыл бұрын

    When rich people can’t understand they aren’t rich in the jungle haha Werner could have had him killed and just been like “it’s the jungle, shit happens”

  • @marytitus88
    @marytitus882 жыл бұрын

    3:13 Lol I think Herzog considered the proposition.

  • @peboca
    @peboca3 жыл бұрын

    Excelent movie

  • @roc7880
    @roc78802 ай бұрын

    I would have paid half of my wealth, meager as it is, to have been an assistant to Kinski when he filmed Aguire. I would also give the other half to have a date with his lovely daughter Nastasia.

  • @_profanity
    @_profanity5 жыл бұрын

    YES

  • @carrrexx7190
    @carrrexx71904 жыл бұрын

    What a strange trip.

  • @Goddessvenom
    @Goddessvenom11 ай бұрын

    So "Dethcarraldo" was based off of this 🤯

  • @danielprates2208
    @danielprates22089 ай бұрын

    Who is "james robards"

  • @loganford3921
    @loganford3921 Жыл бұрын

    It's up there with Roar for a trouble production.

  • @fenrislegacy
    @fenrislegacy3 жыл бұрын

    Wait a second... is that Kinski patching up the cameraman?

  • @TheTarget1980

    @TheTarget1980

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @MENFUSSMIKE

    @MENFUSSMIKE

    Жыл бұрын

    That's what I was thinking. WTf?!?!

  • @Ale-mv3gr
    @Ale-mv3gr Жыл бұрын

    This is up there with ROAR in the "wtf were they thinking". Im mean, yes, the movie is a classic, but a bunch of people died and they disrupted an indigineous tribe.

  • @odakyuodakyu6650
    @odakyuodakyu66502 жыл бұрын

    lets not forget the airline flight he missed which then crashed over the jungle.

  • @Cybjon
    @Cybjon5 жыл бұрын

    "James" Robards? Jesus Christi, you'd think for a VOD film service, they'd be able to get an actor's name right.

  • @davidrlosada

    @davidrlosada

    5 жыл бұрын

    OMG, my fault, completely. What a slip....! I love some of (JASON) Robards' works. Crazy lapsus...

  • @filmnobelpreis
    @filmnobelpreis Жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the famous James Robards.

  • @shotbro4998
    @shotbro49984 жыл бұрын

    Fitzcarraldo is not only Herzog’s best movie, it’s one of the best movies ever made

  • @John-kj3xr
    @John-kj3xr3 жыл бұрын

    lets face it Warner Herzog . driven to see what he could produce drove Clause Kinsky around the bend.

  • @MisterWin

    @MisterWin

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kinski had plenty of issues and controversy before filming this movie.

  • @mariamery7025
    @mariamery70252 жыл бұрын

    Pelicula lokas m recomendaba imagenes de Ramos

  • @stardaddyo9
    @stardaddyo92 жыл бұрын

    Jason , not james

  • @1962LIBBY
    @1962LIBBY9 ай бұрын

    Blew credibility in 90 seconds calling 2 time Oscar winner Jason Robards “James”. Triple crown winning actor.

  • @Zero-uw7kb
    @Zero-uw7kb4 жыл бұрын

    if you build it they will come.

  • @eleanorsendeavors29
    @eleanorsendeavors29 Жыл бұрын

    "Jason" Robards

  • @riccardoangeli802
    @riccardoangeli8023 жыл бұрын

    Woizeck Aguirre Fitzcarraldo e Nosferatu a pari merito

  • @stardaddyo9
    @stardaddyo92 жыл бұрын

    Why do directors put up with Klaus? Because they know the finished product will be great.

  • @traxcanonch.2421
    @traxcanonch.242111 ай бұрын

    3:11 It was confirmed by Walter Saxer that this is not true.

  • @malvarezv97

    @malvarezv97

    9 ай бұрын

    Whatever, I'll believe the more interesting but fictional story

  • @joec1437
    @joec143711 ай бұрын

    *Jason Robards

  • @timothybrosz7697
    @timothybrosz769711 ай бұрын

    brasil no peru

  • @michaelreid1209
    @michaelreid12093 жыл бұрын

    *jason robards

  • @yarimo
    @yarimo5 жыл бұрын

    I believe its untrue that people died on set. Fix this.

  • @omargabriel2677

    @omargabriel2677

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why do you say so?

  • @ErelfBow

    @ErelfBow

    3 жыл бұрын

    They died in the plane crash.

  • @rebeccanehan3540

    @rebeccanehan3540

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ErelfBow they survived the crash

  • @MirrorevO

    @MirrorevO

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rebeccanehan3540 everybody survived the crash, but more things happened: somebody got bitten by snake and they had to cut of his leg with a chainsaw, somebody got hit by an arrow, somebody got badly hurt by the ship pull system, werner herzog had an badly infected leg for a while, somebody lost one of the toes, some people got cut by machetes, read his diaries "conquest of the useless" and will understand the whole madness of this project

  • @rebeccanehan3540

    @rebeccanehan3540

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MirrorevO I saw the documentary, I know a lot of things happened but nobody died.

  • @cortical1
    @cortical18 ай бұрын

    Jason Robards, not James Robards. Mess up crucial details like that and lose all credibility.

  • @adikravets3632
    @adikravets36323 жыл бұрын

    3:03 yeah definitely not a good person.

  • @beritbranch2436
    @beritbranch24362 жыл бұрын

    Difficult productions :)

  • @X2Magneto
    @X2Magneto4 жыл бұрын

    I love artists, but you should have just used the Goddamn models.

  • @JulioLeonFandinho

    @JulioLeonFandinho

    3 жыл бұрын

    @007 CM It never would've looked the same, that's part of the magic from this movie, that the boat is real and it's been transported trhough the middle of the jungle... it's an act of lunacy? probably, but without that act of lunacy the movie never would've been what it is. What do you think, for instance, about The bridge on River Kwai? imagine that David Lean had decided to shoot a damn model bridge... same case here

  • @seanramsdell4172
    @seanramsdell41725 жыл бұрын

    0:27 Life of Todd Gatsby

  • @seanramsdell4172
    @seanramsdell41725 жыл бұрын

    0:04-0:09 How Not To Be Seen

  • @John-kj3xr
    @John-kj3xr3 жыл бұрын

    Actually could care less ... but?

  • @MisterWin

    @MisterWin

    3 жыл бұрын

    ...but you still clicked on it and watched it?

  • @mr.sinjin-smyth

    @mr.sinjin-smyth

    3 жыл бұрын

    But... you still cared to watch and leave a comment LOL

  • @boneytony5041

    @boneytony5041

    2 жыл бұрын

    Couldn’t

  • @LEARSIKCIGAM
    @LEARSIKCIGAM Жыл бұрын

    Too bad the cinematography is terrible, you never get a sense of scale in this movie, they always feel small and drab. The scene when the boat is in the floundering in the river may as well have been a model.

  • @Reb3nga

    @Reb3nga

    Жыл бұрын

    It most definetely is a model 😂

  • @NaijaCINE
    @NaijaCINE5 жыл бұрын

    So people were intentionally killed in the name of cinema? How is this not a crime?

  • @teddyochfreddy

    @teddyochfreddy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Intentionally? They died tragically in a plane crash. Burden of Dreams is fantastic btw, similar to Hearts of Darkness, the making of Apocalypse Now.

  • @lasahe4440
    @lasahe44403 жыл бұрын

    Stupid movie. I don’t know what is so great about it. Bah.

  • @riccardoangeli802

    @riccardoangeli802

    3 жыл бұрын

    Klaus Kinsky

  • @pancakemacbuttery9142

    @pancakemacbuttery9142

    Жыл бұрын

    Da kinsky

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