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Burden of Dreams (1982) is a feature-length documentary and making-of directed by Les Blank
Les Blank

Les Blank is an United States documentary film filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians.Blank attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received a B.A....
, shot during and about the chaotic production of Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog is an Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often associated with the German New Wave movement , along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schl?ndorff, Hans-J?rgen Syberberg, Wim Wenders and others....
's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 in film film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman called Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory....
, filmed in the jungles of South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
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Burden of Dreams (1982) is a feature-length documentary and making-of directed by Les Blank
Les Blank

Les Blank is an United States documentary film filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians.Blank attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received a B.A....
, shot during and about the chaotic production of Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog is an Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often associated with the German New Wave movement , along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schl?ndorff, Hans-J?rgen Syberberg, Wim Wenders and others....
's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 in film film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman called Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory....
, filmed in the jungles of South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
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  • - essay by Paul Arthur for the Burden of Dreams DVD at The Criterion Collection
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