Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo to a tribe of local natives in South America, dreams of creating an exotic opera house so that the music of Caruso, Puccini and Wagner can resonate in the heart of the amazon. To finance the enterprise, his wife Molly (Claudia Cardinale) convinces him to dedicate himself to collecting and trading rubber, whose high concentration is found near the Ucayali River, which is difficult to reach by boat.
The film, in addition…