Fitzcarraldo

Reflecting, to some extent, the ambitious circumstances of its own making, Herzog's extraordinary film concerns the dream of an adventurer and would-be rubber baron (Klaus Kinski) to transport European culture – in the form of an opera house and Caruso – to the wilderness of the Amazon jungle. A surreal, salutary study of the colonialist ethos at its most crazed, full of astonishing images and authentically epic drama.