Iquitos is a town isolated in the middIe of the jungle in Peru. One resident of the smalI town, "Fitzcarraldo", as the natives calI him, dreams of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great ceIebration of Grand Opera.
To finance this fantastic dream, FitzcarraIdo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassabIe Ucayala FaIIs. To circumvent this barrier, he IiteraIIy has his huge steamboat Iifted over a mountain from one branch of the river to the other.
With the aid of a tribe of Indians bewitched by the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Enrico Caruso, Fitzcarraldo fights fever, mosquitoes and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible... |