Fitzcarraldo [SEP] narrative location
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 West German adventure-drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon Basin. The film is derived from the historic events of Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald and his real-life feat of transporting a disassembled steamboat over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald
forests within a radius of five miles (8 km) of the Pongo possibly comprise the single most biologically-diverse site on the face of the Earth."
The rapids of the Pongo de Mainique were used as a filming location for key scenes of Werner Herzog's 1982 film "Fitzcarraldo" starring Klaus Kinski.
In a 2006 survey of "15 of the world's top travel writers" by "The Observer", Monty Python actor and BBC travel documentarist Michael Palin named it his "favourite place in the