Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 West German surreal
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.