In his four-star review, Roger Ebert called FITZCARRALDO "one of the great visions of the cinema, and one of the great follies....a quest film in which the hero's quest is scarcely more mad than the filmmaker's." To tell this story of a feverishly driven opera lover, who enlists awed Peruvian natives to drag a steamboat over a rainforest mountain so that he can access the rubber trees that will bankroll his dream of opening an opera house in the jungle, director Werner Herzog literally recreated his hero's quest, deep in the Peru's rainforest. His years-long struggle to bring FITZCARRALDO to the screen resulted in one of cinema's great stories—and a can't-miss film.

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