Burden of Dreams (1982/2024)

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An extraordinary feature-length documentary about the messianic German director Werner Herzog struggling against desperate odds in the Amazon basin to make his epic feature, Fitzcarraldo. Burden of Dreams was honored with a British Academy Award for Best Documentary of 1982, and many critics consider it Blank’s most awesome film. (From the Criterion collection)

A film by Les Blank with Maureen Gosling
94 minutes
In English, Spanish, & German
1982/2024

• Derek Malcolm (of The Guardian) picks his ‘Century of Films’ and names Burden of Dreams one of the best 100 films of the 20th century. Read his review.
• A MySpace-hosted interview with Wener Herzog discussing Burden of Dreams can be viewed on Werner Herzog’s own page.
• Read a review of Burden of Dreams by The Wellington Film Society’s Raymond Durgnat.
• Werner Herzog forges ahead in his unique cinematic quest for truth in, A Wild Walk With Werner by Michael Atkinson.