Filmseminar Werner Herzog: "Fitzcarraldo"

In the organizer's words:

The film FITZCARRALDO will be screened as part of the 22nd Mannheim Film Seminar from January 17-19:
DEU/PER 1982. D: Werner Herzog. D: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy. 158 min. FSK: 12

An insane film about an insane project: For FITZCARRALDO, the story of a music lover who wants to build his own opera house in the Peruvian jungle, Werner Herzog had, among other things, a 160-ton ship pulled over a mountain. He did not accept the "obviousness" of using models, which was "not discussed" by the financial backers. After parts of the film with Jason Roberts, Mario Adorf and Mick Jagger (yes, the Mick Jagger) had already been shot, the project had to be completely repeated because Roberts fell ill and Adorf and Jagger left the production. The newly hired Klaus Kinski then had such outbursts of rage on set that indigenous people present as extras allegedly offered to kill Kinski. This breathtaking result would probably not have been possible without the difficult shoot: "FITZCARRALDO is powerful cinema that pushes the boundaries. Obsession, the will to move mountains in the truest sense of the word, the compulsion to turn a vision into reality - that's what this epic and drastic adventure drama is all about." (Deutsche Welle)

Price information:

regular 10€/ reduced 7€/ members Cinema Quadrat e.V. 6€