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.
Klaus Kinski
as Fitzcarraldo
Claudia Cardinale
as Molly
José Lewgoy
as Don Aquilino
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
as Cholo
Paul Hittscher
as Orinoco Paul
Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
as Huerequeque
Grande Otelo
as Station Master
Peter Berling
as Opera Manager
David Pérez Espinosa
as Campa Chief
Milton Nascimento
as Opera House Blackman
Ruy Polanah
as Rubber Baron
Salvador Godínez
as Old Missionary