Burden of Dreams

Name: Burden of Dreams
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1982-10-01
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Candace Laughlin, Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Alfredo de Río Tambo

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7.5(145 votes)

1982

1h 37m

Documentary

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Overview

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.