Burden of Dreams

1h 37m · 1982 · Directed by Les Blank · 4.1 / 5 on Letterboxd

Burden of Dreams (1982) runs 1h 37m, directed by Les Blank. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

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.

Genres: Documentary

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