Fitzcarraldo (1982)

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Fitzcarraldo (1982) – W. Herzog

I finally watched this again with Herzog's commentary track on and although I'd heard all the stories before (except for the fact that he says Les Blank's Burden of Dreams only caught half of the crazy story), it is great to hear them from Herzog's teutonic lips. If you haven't seen Klaus Kinski and a huge cast of native Peruvian indians drag a steam-ship over a mountain between two rivers, then you have not witnessed spiritual triumph -- the pyrrhic victory is icing on the cake.