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Fitzcarraldo - Boat Hauling in the Amazon with Pear & Brie Crostini

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Going back to 1982 for this Werner Herzog classic starring Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald and Molly - two German expats living in the Amazon. Brian is a fanatical lover of opera who is having mixed success trying to bring refrigeration to the jungle. He schemes to enter the lucrative rubber trade and use the profits to build an opera house in the middle of the jungle and host the greatest European Opera stars for the day. With a loan from Molly, he commissions an old river boat and a drunkard crew to execute his plan. The big challenge, he has…

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