Blank, Les, Fuentes, Miguel Angel, Gagnon, Father Mariano, Gosling, Maureen, Herzog, Werner, Kinski, Klaus, Lewgoy, José	...	(Director)
Michael Goodwin	...	(Writer)
Werner Herzog	...	Himself
Klaus Kinski	...	Fitzcarraldo
Claudia Cardinale	...	Molly
Jason Robards	...	Fitzcarraldo
Mick Jagger	...	Wilbur
Alfredo De Rio Tambo	...	Himself
Ángela Reina	...	Herself
Carmen Correa	...	Herself
Elia De Rio Ene	...	Himself
David Pérez Espinosa	...	Himself
Miguel Ángel Fuentes	...	Himself
Mariano Gagnon	...	Himself
Paul Hittscher	...	Himself
Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez	...	Himself
Evaristo Nunkuag Ikanan	...	Himself
José Lewgoy	...	Himself
Laplace Martins	...	Himself
Thomas Mauch	...	Himself
Nelson De Rio Cenepa	...	Himself (as Nelson de Rio Cenepa)
Walter Saxer	...	Himself
Jorge Vignati	...	Himself
Candace Laughlin	...	Narrator (voice)
Les Blank	...	Cinematographer
Maureen Gosling	...	Editor
Father Mariano Gagnon	...	Himself

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Summary: For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete the most ambitious and difficult film of his career-Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made all the more perilous by Herzog's determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of natives to pull a full-sized, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded passion of one of cinema#s most fearless directors.