Remarkably candid behind-the-scenes documentary.
Burden of Dreams (1982)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:13
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: An extraordinary journey into the mind and passions of director Werner Herzog during the filming of "Fitzcarraldo." Director Les Blank, with Maureen Gosling, has successfully captured on film the... An extraordinary journey into the mind and passions of director Werner Herzog during the filming of "Fitzcarraldo." Director Les Blank, with Maureen Gosling, has successfully captured on film the events and emotions surrounding the making of an exceptional motion picture. [More]
Starring: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
Starring: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
Director: Les Blank
Director: Les Blank
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Reviews for Burden of Dreams
A fascinating portrait of a filmmaker pushed to the outer edge of sanity...
not only captures the dramatic moments where Herzog risks life and limb ... , but he includes small details that provide necessary natural respites from Herzog's 'madness'
Strangely, Burden of Dreams is a better film than Fitzcarraldo, if only because you get to see the fictional portions of the film along with the backstory
It’s Fitzcarraldo with affirmed and not sublime biography; in essence, the same film without the pretense of fiction.
A searing voyeur's peek at two of cinema's most audacious talents -- and megalomaniacs.
Les Blank's Burden of Dreams is one of the most remarkable documentaries ever made about the making of a movie.
The film is at once funny and, in its depiction of the scant differences between art and megalomania, somewhat frightening.
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