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This article is about the film. For other uses, see Fitzcarraldo (disambiguation).

Fitzcarraldo (/fɪtskə'raldo/) is a West German epicadventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin.

The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once transported a disassembled steamboat over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald.

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The film had a troubled production, chronicled in the documentary Burden of Dreams (). Herzog had his crew attempt to manually haul the ton steamship up a steep hill, leading to three injuries. The film's original star Jason Robards became sick halfway through filming, so Herzog hired Kinski, with whom he had previously clashed violently during production of Aguirre, th