Burden of Dreams
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Director: Les Blank Run Time: 97 min. Format: 4K Digital Release Year: 1982 Language: English and German with English subtitles
Starring: Alfredo de Río Tambo, Candace Laughlin, Claudia Cardinale, Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog
Producer: Les Blank
With an introduction from Anthony Matt, the Post-Production Supervisor for Les Blank Films and Nick Bergh from Endpoint Audio
An incredible document of one of the most ambitious achievements in 20th-Century filmmaking, Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams catalogs the troubled production of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. Filmed in the Amazon rainforest in 1979, this semi-cursed production forges ahead despite a lunatic star, struggles with the local tribes, tragic accidents, and the enormous task of hauling a steamboat up a mountain. One of the greatest documentarians of all time, the ever-personable Les Blank captures all the triumphs and disasters of the monumental filmmaking experience, creating a portrait of the desire for the creative spirit to reach its goals, no matter how lofty and improbable. See this remarkable film in its newly restored and remastered form and get lost in the jungle with two master filmmakers.