MIMEOGRAPH HANDOUT FOR UK PREMIERE OF FITZCARRALDO. 1982.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Film Festival, 1982

30 x 21cm, 2pp black on pink mimeographic leaflet – the handout for the UK premiere of Werner Herzhog’s Fitzcarraldo. The film starred the frankly mad Klaus Kinski who as part of an attempt to set up an opera house in the Amazon jungle has the local indigenous people carry a passenger ship up over a mountain (to prove he can access the land as part of a trading deal). The film became known (later) as a contentious project – the abuse/exploitation of local peoples as well as Kinski’s close to murderous rages against the rest of the cast and crew (and director) became notorious. years later Kinski was revealed to have abused his own daughter Natasha – an actress in her own right. He may have created some memorable roles in film but personally he was foul. VG+.