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Les Blank's Burden of Dreams is one of the most remarkable documentaries ever made about the making of a movie.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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The film is at once funny and, in its depiction of the scant differences between art and megalomania, somewhat frightening.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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