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- 1982
- Not Rated
- Flower Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 1982
- Not Rated
- Flower Films
- 1 h 35 m
Summary A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
Directed By: Les Blank
Written By: Michael Goodwin
- 1982
- Not Rated
- Flower Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 1982
- Not Rated
- Flower Films
- 1 h 35 m
Burden of Dreams
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Summary A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
Directed By: Les Blank
Written By: Michael Goodwin
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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14% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
77
86% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Burden of Dreams gives us an extraordinary portrait of Herzog trapped in the middle of one of his wildest dreams.
Burden of Dreams would stand on its own as a "how-the-film- was-made" documentary and as an inquiry into the strange nature of film as the most collective of art forms. Fortunately for Blank and for us, the film that Herzog wound up finishing, Fitzcarraldo, is a triumph artistically as well as logistically. [15 Oct 1982, p.D1]
Herzog’s death-defying endeavor (executed with the help of an indigenous Indian tribe, not special effects) is the basis for Burden of Dreams, Les Blank’s lyric chronicle of the film’s four-year evolution.
One of the most candid, most fascinating portraits ever made of a motion picture director at work.
Burden of Dreams is most fascinating, however, when it zeroes in on Herzog himself. [28 Oct 1982, p.18]
The viewer finds himsel falternating between awe at the director's courage, energy and dedication, and horror at his monomania. [18 Oct 1982, p.95]
It's obvious that Blank has been forced into many organizational shortcuts in an effort to stitch the random footage together.
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Production Company
Flower Films,
Independent Documentary Fund,
The National Endowment for the Arts,
Ford Foundation,
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),
Public Television Stations,
SDR Fernsehen
Release Date May 30, 1982
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
American Cinema Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination