| director = Werner Herzog
| producer = Werner Herzog Renzo Rossellini Walter Saxer Willi Segler Lucki Stipetic
| writer = Werner Herzog
| narrator =
| starring = Klaus KinskiClaudia Cardinale
| music = Popol Vuh
| cinematography = Thomas Mauch
| editing = Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
| distributor =
| released = 4 March 1982 (West Germany)
| runtime = 158 min.
| country =
| language = English German (alternate version)
| budget =
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| website =
| amg_id = 1:17649
| imdb_id = 0083946
}}Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 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 called Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory. The film is derived from the real-life story of Peruvian