Werner Herzog Retrospective

Saturday, December 02, 2006
Werner Herzog Retrospective

Phyllis Wattis Theater
2:00 p.m.

Fitzcarraldo
By Werner Herzog, 1982, 157 min.

Klaus Kinski stars (alongside Claudia Cardinale) as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an opera-loving entrepreneur who sets out to make his fortune in the rubber business and build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. The film notoriously involves transporting a 340-ton steamship over a mountain - an incredible feat that enticed Les Blank to make a behind-the-scenes documentary on the film, the Burden of Dreams.

$10 general; $8 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors. Tickets are available at the Museum (with no surcharge) or online.

Part of Werner Herzog Retrospective.

Supported by the Susan Wildberg Morgenstein Fund and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.

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