Burden of Dreams

(1982)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 157 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1982

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: Peru, United States of America

Director: Les Blank

Cast: Candace Laughlin, Вернер Херцог, Клаус Кински, Claudia Cardinale, Alfredo de Río Tambo, Ángela Reina, Carmen Correa, Elia de Río Ene, David Pérez Espinosa, Miguel Ángel Fuentes

Plot

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.

A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic Fitzcarraldo (1982), showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively driven director. Not only does he have major casting problems, losing both Jason Robards (health) and Mick Jagger (other commitments) halfway through shooting, but the crew gets caught up in a war between Peru and Ecuador, there are problems with the weather and the morale of cast and crew is falling rapidly.