Werner Herzog's fact-based drama chronicling the story of 19th-century Irishman Brian Fitzgerald, who set out on a journey into the South American jungle where he planned to build an opera house - an ambitious scheme that required hauling a 300-ton steam ship over a mountain. Starring Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale. In German, Spanish and Italian.

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.