Watch and Discuss: Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Watch the movie in your own time, then we will meet up to discuss! It is free to stream on Kanopy.

From Rotten Tomatoes: Opera-loving European Brian Fitzgerald lives in a small Peruvian city. Better known as Fitzcarraldo, this foreigner is obsessed with building an opera house in his town and decides that to make his dream a reality he needs to make a killing in the rubber business. In order to become a successful rubber baron, Fitzcarraldo hatches an elaborate plan that calls for a particularly impressive feat -- bringing a massive boat over a mountain with the help of a band of natives..

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