Burden of Dreams

1982 · 97 min · EN · 7.6 (116 votes)

Dir. Les Blank · Starring Candace Laughlin, Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Alfredo de Río Tambo, Ángela Reina

Documentary

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.

VIBE

Witness the sheer, unadulterated madness of artistic obsession. This documentary immerses you in the grueling, often surreal, reality of filmmaking, where the line between vision and delusion blurs against the unforgiving backdrop of the Amazon.

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