Burden of Dreams

Name: Burden of Dreams
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 30, 1982
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 77

1982

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Flower Films | Release Date: May 30, 1982 | Not Rated

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).

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Roger Ebert

Burden of Dreams gives us an extraordinary portrait of Herzog trapped in the middle of one of his wildest dreams. Read full review

Zachary Barnes

Blank created an enduring record of hubris, exploitation and unrelenting misadventure in the pursuit of artistic greatness, all ideally symbolized in both films’ central image—fashioned from mud, sweat and timber—of a huge boat being hauled over a mountain. Read full review

Bill Cosford

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]

The Guardian Derek Malcolm

Films about film-making are usually deeply self-conscious, and sometimes deceiving. But there is one at least that succeeds in surpassing the movie whose making it describes. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

More than just being about the making of FITZCARRALDO, the film is an incisive character study about a visionary filmmaker who seems to be oblivious to the fact that the making of his film is becoming as difficult and foolhardy as Fitzcarraldo's own struggles. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The film is at once funny and, in its depiction of the scant differences between art and megalomania, somewhat frightening. Read full review

Gary Arnold

It's obvious that Blank has been forced into many organizational shortcuts in an effort to stitch the random footage together. Read full review

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