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Play Sound With the river this low, the slightest error in navigation... can run a ship aground. But when a sudden rainstorm raises the water level for a few short hours... Herzog tries a desperate gamble and takes the ship out onto the river to shoot an important scene.
With the river this low, the slightest error in navigation... can run a ship aground. But when a sudden rainstorm raises the water level for a few short hours... Herzog tries a desperate gamble and takes the ship out onto the river to shoot an important scene.

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Description: A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).

Cast:
Self: Beat Presser
Fitzcarraldo: Jason Robards
Molly: Claudia Cardinale
Wilbur: Mick Jagger
Narrator: Candace Laughlin

Written by: Michael Goodwin

Director: Les Blank

Production: Flower Films, José Koechlin von Stein

Release date: 24 Sep 1982