Burden Of Dreams Details

Burden Of Dreams

For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete the most ambitious and difficult film of his career-Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made all the more perilous by Herzog's determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of natives to pull a full-sized, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded passion of one of cinema#s most fearless directors.

Starring	Miguel Ángel Fuentes, José Lewgoy, Alfredo De Rio Tambo, Father Mariano Gagnon, Ángela Reina
Director	Les Blank
Studio	NOUVEAUX PICTURES
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 35 mins
Certificate
Genres	Documentary, Drama
Language	DVD: Spanish, English, German
Released	Production year: 1982 To Rent: DVD: not available