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Burden of Dreams

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Movie
1982
1h 37m
English
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.
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Candace Laughlin
Self - Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog
Self - Filmmaker
Klaus Kinski
Self - Actor
Claudia Cardinale
Self - Actress
Mariano Gagnon
Self - Missionary
Paul Hittscher
Self - Actor
Jos Lewgoy
Self - Actor
Laplace Martins
Self - Civil Engineer
Thomas Mauch
Self - DOP
Walter Saxer
Self - Producer
Pacho Lane
Self - Interviewer
Michael Goodwin
Self - Interviewer
Jason Robards
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Mick Jagger
Wilbur (archive footage)
Directed By: Les Blank
Written By: Michael Goodwin

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Maarten Delfgou says...
3 years ago
The making of of Fitzcarraldo https://trakt.tv/movies/fitzcarraldo-1982
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MajorMercyFlush says...
10 years ago
Makes Lost in La Mancha look like a tea party
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RyFilms says...
9 months ago
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/AgvoqnxgqCnfHC4W/?mibextid=xfxF2i Clip of the director rant
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miguelreina says...
4 years ago
One of the few cases in which the documentary about the "making of" is better than the movie. The transformation of a director obsessed with reaching perfection into a character who seems to be the protagonist of the story he is rolling. As a document that shows the lost battle against the elements, along with a certain megalomania, it is masterful. The circumstances of the shooting also help to compose a cruel chronicle about the curse of an artist.
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