Burden of Dreams

Burden of Dreams (1982)

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

Date of release
1982-10-01
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (158)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Les Blank

Casting

Interesting facts

Burden of Dreams is a 1982 making-of documentary film directed and produced by Les Blank. It recounts the troubled production of the 1982 Fitzcarraldo directed by Werner Herzog, while shooting on location in Peru.

Production

During production on the documentary, director Les Blank and his small crew became exhausted and exasperated from the stress of the work. Blank said he felt "unconnected to the people around me". Keeping up with the antics of Herzog and Klaus Kinski (the star of Fitzcarraldo) proved difficult for the reserved, introverted Blank.

Blank often asked Herzog to repeat statements while being filmed that he originally made off-camera. In a 2009 interview with Jesse Pearson for Vice magazine, Blank was asked to recall a scene in the documentary in which Herzog delivers a monologue about the violence and destruction of the jungle around him.

The film's poster was created by Montana artist Monte Dolack.

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