Burden of Dreams
Directed by Les Blank
Produced by Flower Films
A harrowing portrait of obsessive artistic vision colliding with the brutal realities of the Amazon, where Herzog's madness becomes both the film's subject and its method.
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.
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