March 29, 2011 (XXII:10) Werner Herzog: FITZCARRALDO (1982, 158 min) Directed by Werner Herzog Written by Werner Herzog Produced by Werner Herzog, Willi Segler, Lucki Stipetic Cinematography by Thomas Mauch Production Design by Ulrich Bergfelder, Henning von Gierke Music Composed by Popol Vuh Klaus Kinski... Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' Claudia Cardinale... Molly José Lewgoy... Don Aquilino Miguel Ángel Fuentes ... Cholo Paul Hittscher... Captain (Orinoco Paul) Peter Berling... Opera Manager Milton Nascimento... Blackman At Opera House Werner Herzog (September 5, 1942, Munich, Germany) Woodchuck chuck...” / “Beobachtungen zu einer neuen directed 60 films, many of them documentaries, and wrote 51 of Sprache”, 1977 Heinrich, 1977 Stroszek, 1976 Strongman them. Some of his titles are 2012 “Death Row”, 2010 Caves of Ferdinand, 1975 Under the Beach's Cobbles, 1973 Part-Time Forgotten Dreams, 2009 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, Work of a Domestic Slave, 1972 Aguirre: The Wrath of God, 2009 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, 2007 1971 The Big Mess, 1970 Even Dwarfs Started Small, 1968 The Encounters at the End of the World, 2006 Rescue Dawn, 2005 Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless, 1967 Table for Love, 1966 The Wild Blue Yonder, 2005 Grizzly Man, 2004 The White Yesterday Girl, 1965 Unendliche Fahrt - aber begrenzt, and Diamond, 2003 Wheel of Time, 1999 My Best Fiend, 1998 Little 1965 Varia Vision. Dieter Needs to Fly, 1992 Lessons of Darkness, 1986 Portrait Werner Herzog, 1982 Fitzcarraldo, 1979 Woyzeck, 1979 The group Popol Vuh has 12 film music credits: 2006 A propos Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1977 Stroszek, 1976 Heart of Glass, de America, 2005 Parallel 42, 1999 My Best Fiend, 1991 Il gioco 1972 Aguirre: The Wrath of God, 1971 Land of Silence and delle ombre, 1990 Al Gatun, 1987 Cobra Verde, 1985 Darkness, 1971 Fata Morgana, 1970 Even Dwarfs Started Small, “Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg”, 1982 Fitzcarraldo, 1979 1967 The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz, Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1976 Heart of Glass, 1974 Die große and1962 Herakles. Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner, and 1972 Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Thomas Mauch (April 4, 1937, Heidenheim/Brenz, Germany) has 95 cinematrography credits, many of them documentaries. KLAUS KINSKI... Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' Some of his films are 2008 Wir waren so frei, 2008 Mozart in (October 18, 1926, Zoppot, Free City of Danzig [now Sopot, China, 2006 Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen, 2006 Warchild, Pomorskie, Poland] – November 23, 1991, Lagunitas, California) 2005 Die Hitlerkantate, 2000 Half of Heaven, 2000 The King's has 135 acting credits, among them 1989 Kinski Paganini, 1988 Daughters, 1998 Sweety Barrett, 1998 “Walli, die Eisfrau”, 1995 Vampire in Venice, 1988 Grandi cacciatore, 1987 Cobra Verde, Orson Welles: The One-Man Band, 1995 I.D., 1995 1986 Revenge of the Stolen Stars, 1985 Kommando Leopard, Transatlantis, 1994 Auf Wiedersehen Amerika, 1990 “Murder 1985 Creature, 1984 The Little Drummer Girl, 1984 Code East - Murder West”, 1989 Waller's Last Trip, 1987 Witness in Name: Wild Geese, 1984 “Faerie Tale Theatre”, 1984 The Secret the War Zone, 1986 Ain't Nothin' Without You, 1983 The Power Diary of Sigmund Freud, 1982 The Soldier, 1982 Fitzcarraldo, of Emotion, 1983 “Dingo”, 1983 Kiez, 1983 Heinrich 1982 Love & Money, 1981 Buddy Buddy, 1981 Venom, 1981 Penthesilea von Kleist, 1982 Fitzcarraldo, 1981 Desperado City, Fruits of Passion, 1980 Schizoid, 1980 Haine, 1979 Woyzeck, 1980 Palermo oder Wolfsburg, 1978 “How much Wood would a 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1978 The Song of Roland, 1977 Herzog—FITZCARRALDO—2 The French Woman, 1976 Golden Night, 1976 Jack the Ripper, grande parada, 1966 Ring Around the World, 1957 S.O.S. 1975 A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot, 1975 Return of Noronha, 1953 Três Recrutas, and 1952 Três Vagabundos. Shanghai Joe, 1974 Lover of the Monster, 1974 The Hand That Feeds the Dead, 1973 Shanghai Joe, 1973 Death Smiles on a PETER BERLING... Opera Manager (March 20, 1934, Meseritz- Murderer, 1972 Aguirre: The Wrath of God, 1971 Black Killer, Obrawalde, Germany [now Obrzyce, Poland]) appeared in 68 1971 Death's Dealer, 1971 Shoot the Living and Pray for the films and television programs, including 2002 Gangs of New Dead, 1971 Coffin Full of Dollars, 1971 Giù la testa... hombre, York, 2002 Angel of Death, 1994 Satantango, 1993 Texas - Doc 1970 Churchill's Leopards, 1970 Count Dracula, 1969 Sartana Snyder hält die Welt in Atem, 1993 “Geschichten aus der Heimat the Gravedigger, 1969 Venus in Furs, 1969 They Were Called – Blattschuß”, 1991 Voyager, 1990 Visioni private, 1988 The Graveyard, 1968 The Bastard, 1968 If You Meet Sartana Pray Last Temptation of Christ, 1987 Cobra Verde, 1986 The Name of for Your Death, 1967 Grand Slam, 1966 A Bullet for the the Rose, 1982 Fitzcarraldo, 1982 Veronika Voss, 1982 An Ideal General, 1966 Das Geheimnis der gelben Mönche, 1966 Killer's Adventure, 1979 The Marriage of Maria Braun, 1976 Mr. Carnival, 1966 Bang! Bang! You're Dead!, 1965 Doctor Scarface, 1976 Black and White in Color, 1975 Sergeant Klems, Zhivago, 1965 For a Few Dollars More, 1964 Die Gruft mit dem 1975 Bang, and the Angels Sing, 1974 Julia, 1973 Dirty Rätselschloß, 1964 Mark of the Tortoise, 1963 Dr. Mabuse vs. Weekend, 1972 Aguirre: The Wrath of God, 1972 The Italian Scotland Yard, 1963 The Black Cobra, 1962 Der rote Raush, Connection, 1969 Love is Colder Than Death, 1969 Detektive, 1962 The Counterfeit Traitor, 1961 Dead Eyes of London, 1958 1968 Uxmal, 1966 Der Brief, and1957 Immer wenn der Tag A Time to Love and a Time to Die, 1955 Children, Mother, and beginnt. the General, 1955 Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs, and 1948 Morituri CLAUDIA CARDINALE... Molly (April 15, 1938, Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia]) has appeared in 196 films, among them 2011 Signora Enrica, 2010 A View of Love, 2009 The String, 2005 The Demon Stirs, 1999 Brigands, 1997 Sous les pieds des femmes, 1994 Elles ne pensent qu'à ça..., 1993 Son of the Pink Panther, 1992 Mother, 1991 Act of Sorrow, 1989 La révolution française, 1987 A Man in Love, 1985 L'été prochain, 1985 Woman of Wonders, 1984 Henry IV, 1983 Le ruffian, 1982 Fitzcarraldo, 1981 Corleone, 1981 The Salamander, 1978 Little Girl in Blue Velvet, 1977 “Jesus of Nazareth”, 1975 Blonde in Black Leather, 1973 Days of Fury, 1969 The Red Tent, 1969 A Fine Pair, 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West, 1967 Don't Make Waves, 1967 A Rose for Everyone, 1966 The Professionals, David Church, “Werner Herzog,” Senses of Cinema 41 1966 Lost Command, 1964 The Magnificent Cuckold, 1964 Time of Indifference, 1963 The Pink Panther, 1963 The Leopard, 1963 With a singular vision continually blurring the fine line between 8½, 1961 Girl with a Suitcase, 1960 Rocco and His Brothers, reality and fiction, Werner Herzog has become one of cinema’s 1960 The Magistrate, 1960 The Battle of Austerlitz, 1958 Tre most controversial and enigmatic filmmakers. A strong authorial straniere a Roma, 1958 Big Deal on Madonna Street, and 1958 presence pervades each of his films, whether fictional features or Goha documentaries. For Herzog, there is no distinction between the two styles – they are all just “films” – because real life and JOSÉ LEWGOY… Don Aquilino (November 16, 1920, fiction feed off each other for mutual poetic inspiration. His Veranópolis, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil – February 10, 2003, Rio worldview often seems bleak and anti-humanistic, featuring de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) appeared in 134 films and quixotic outsiders who reject or are rejected by society, only to television programs, some of which were 2003 Apolônio Brasil, be crushed by the weight of their own ambitions. Civilisation is Campeão da Alegria, 2002 “Esperança”, 1999 The Magic Hour, always teetering at the edge of self-destruction, “like a thin layer 1999 “Força de Um Desejo”, 1992-1998 “Você Decide”, 1998 of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness” (1), with faith Policarpo Quaresma, Herói do Brasil, 1996 The Jew, 1992 and superstition minding the tattered border. An air of Perfume de Gardênia, 1992 “Perigosas Peruas”, 1990 Stelinha, Romanticism finds human kind dwarfed by the terrifying might 1989 Two Edged Knife, 1988 Moon Over Parador, 1987 Cobra and majesty of nature, while strange landscapes exist as Verde, 1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1982 Fitzcarraldo, 1982 reflections of inner mental states. Although keenly aware of his Tabu, 1978 The Mucker, 1976 O Flagrante, 1976 Padre Cícero, nation’s violent past, Herzog’s films generally eschew specific 1976 O Homem de Papel, 1975 As Secretárias... Que Fazem de historical and political considerations in the face of a universe Tudo, 1974 “O Professor Vai Embora”, 1973 Hung Up, 1973 filled with murder, destruction and the demise of the individual. “Cavalo de Aço”, 1972 Independência ou Morte, 1971 Pra These themes gradually emerge throughout a body of work at Quem Fica, Tchau, 1971 Lua-de-Mel e Amendoim, 1970 Mortal once stunning and perplexing. As with the subject matter in his Sin, 1969 The Girl Watchers, 1968 Roberto Carlos em Ritmo de “documentaries”, it is often difficult to separate the “real” Aventura, 1968 Roberto Carlos e o Diamante Cor-de-Rosa, 1968 Herzog from the myriad fictions that have sprung up around him, A Vida Provisória, 1967 A Rose for Everyone, 1967 Jerry - a either as myths perpetuated in the media or as subtle fabrications maintained by Herzog himself (2). Herzog—FITZCARRALDO—3 Born in 1942, Herzog grew up amid post-World War II “putting the instruments of war into the hands of individuals” (7), destruction in the small Bavarian village of Sachrang. He saw his an idea that would resurface years later in Herzog’s controversial first movies at age 11 and quickly discovered film technique by documentary Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (Ballad of the Little taking heed of continuity errors and generic conventions in cheap Soldier, 1984).