Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

• Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
• Pro-ject Filmproduktion
• Klaus Kinski
• Claudia Cardinale
• José Lewgoy
• Miguel Ángel Fuentes
• Paul Hittscher
• Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
• Grande Otelo
• Peter Berling