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Burden of Dreams is a 1982 "making-of" documentary film directed by Les Blank, shot during and about the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, and filmed on location in the jungles of Peru.

Burden of Dreams
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Les Blank
Starring	Claudia Cardinale Werner Herzog Mick Jagger Klaus Kinski Jason Robards Candace Laughlin Mariano Gagnon[1]
Distributed by	Flower Films
Release date	May 30, 1982 (1982-05-30)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Spanish, English, German, Portuguese

Plot summary

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Cast

• Werner Herzog as Self
• Klaus Kinski as Fitzcarraldo / Self
• Claudia Cardinale as Molly / Self
• Jason Robards as Fitzcarraldo
• Mick Jagger as Wilbur

Production

Throughout production, director Les Blank and his small crew became exhausted and exasperated from the stress of the work. Blank said that he felt "unconnected to the people around me".[2] Keeping up with the antics of Herzog and Klaus Kinski (the film's star) proved difficult for the reserved, introverted Blank. By the last week of production, he was so burnt out that he feared coming out of production "like some Viet Nam veterans, horribly calloused". He wrote in his journal, "I'm tired of it all and I couldn't care less if they move the stupid ship – or finish the fucking film".[3]

Blank would often ask Herzog to repeat statements while being filmed that he originally made off-camera. In a 2009 interview with Jesse Pearson for Vice magazine, Blank was asked to recall a scene in the documentary showing Herzog delivering a monologue about the violence and destruction of the jungle around him. Blank says that the scene originally took place in the middle of a canoe ride, away from cameras, but he liked the speech enough to coax it out of Herzog again. "When the moment was right," Blank told Vice, "I pulled him aside and said, 'Can I do a little interview?' And he said, 'Sure.'" A friend of Blank's "led [Herzog] around to something that sparked him off on that tangent again. That's how we got the speech."[4]

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 94% based on reviews from 17 critics.[5]

Roger Ebert awarded the film a full four stars, writing that "Blank [...] is unafraid to ask difficult questions and portray Herzog, warts and all".[6]

The film received the 1983 British Academy Film Award for Best Documentary and was named Best of Festival at the San Francisco Film Festival the same year.[7]

The film poster was created by Montana artist Monte Dolack.[8]

Preservation

The Academy Film Archive preserved Burden of Dreams in 1999.[9]

See also

Other documentaries about troubled movie productions:

• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, about the making of Apocalypse Now
• Lost Soul, about the making of the 1996 version of The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Lost in La Mancha, about the failed attempt to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
• Jodorowsky's Dune, about the troubled pre-production and unsuccessful adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel Dune
• Empire of Dreams, about the complicated production of Star Wars

References

External links

• Burden of Dreams at IMDb
• Burden of Dreams at AllMovie
• Burden of Dreams at the TCM Movie Database
• Burden of Dreams at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Burden of Dreams: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities an essay by Paul Arthur at the Criterion Collection
• The captions of Burden of Dreams (English only) at CSwap - Browsable and searchable (JavaScript required)

На других языках

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- [en] Burden of Dreams

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[ru] Бремя мечты

«Бремя мечты» (англ. Burden of Dreams) — второй фильм документалиста Леса Бланка о немецком режиссёре-экстремале Вернере Херцоге (1982). В нём представлена история самого масштабного проекта Херцога — фильма «Фицкаральдо».

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