20世纪初南美秘鲁。痴迷歌剧的白人菲茨杰拉德(克劳斯·金斯基 Klaus Kinski饰)被当地人称为空想家“菲茨卡拉多”。菲茨卡拉多经常做出一些令人无法理解的举动,尤其当他在巴西的亚马逊大剧院欣赏到世界著名男高音卡鲁索的演出之后,居然萌生出要在秘鲁小镇上也修建出一座宏大剧院的疯狂念头。为了获得足够的资金,菲茨卡拉多接受了当地橡胶大亨向他提出到神秘恐怖的乌圭里亚林区进行收割的任务,一段惊险刺激的旅程随之开始。
由德国著名导演沃纳·赫尔佐格执导的影片《陆上行舟》,荣获1982年第35届戛纳电影节主竞赛单元-最佳导演奖并入围该届金棕榈奖提名,以及入围1983年第40届金球奖最佳外语片提名。
River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol, and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way. However, they don't manage to get very far; indeed, the film's central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality. This well-received, low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida, placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls, barren highways and overgrown, swampy fields; the title is another name for the Florida Everglades.