FILM 1251: FITZCARRALDO
TRIVIA: A real 340-ton steamship
was moved over the mountain with a bulldozer, without the use of special
effects.
Klaus Kinski was a major source of
tension on set, as he fought virulently with the crew and raged over trivial
matters. The natives where very upset about his behavior. Herzog has claimed
that it went so far that one of the chieftains offered, in all seriousness, to
murder Kinski for Herzog.
Based on a true story. Carlos
Fermin Fitzcarrald was a Peruvian rubber baron, the son of an Irish-American
father and a Peruvian mother, who developed the Madre de Dios basin by
portaging a ship overland. It was disassembled, however, not moved intact. The
rivers connected by the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald are the Rio Mishagua and Rio
Manu; the Ucayali was part of the downstream shipping route. Fitzcarrald died
at age 35 when his ship sank.
Was shot in English, since many of
the actors on the set couldn't speak German.
Jack Nicholson was
originally set to star, but left the production.
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