Burden of Dreams Director: Les Blank Cast: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
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- DVD Release Date: 05/10/2005
- Original Release: 1982
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- Sales Rank: 952
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Features
Closed Caption; New, restored high-definition digital transfer; Audio commentary by director Les Blank, editor and sound recordist Maureen Gosling, and Fitzcarraldo director Werner Herzog; "Dreams and Burdens," a new 38-minute video interview with Herzog; Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), a 20-minute film by Blank featuring Herzog fulfilling a bet ; Deleted scenes; Photo gallery of images taken by Gosling ; Theatrical trailer; New and improved English subtitle translation and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; A new essay by film scholar Paul Arthur and an 80-page book of excerpts from Blank's and Gosling's production journals
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Side #1 --
1. The Story of Fitzcarraldo [4:46]
2. The Aguaruna Struggle [6:38]
3. Robards and Jagger Leave [3:32]
4. Kinski Arrives/Iquitos [5:17]
5. The Boats [3:31]
6. The Second Camp [3:17]
7. José Lewgoy/Hardship [4:44]
8. The Ship Runs Aground [3:44]
9. Employing the Indigenous Population [6:54]
10. Raid Party [5:01]
11. Separate Worlds [6:32]
12. Masato [2:32]
13. Compensation [4:58]
14. "The Jungle Is Winning" [4:35]
15. Tending to Boredom [4:48]
16. The Boat and the Hill [8:33]
17. Challenging Nature [4:27]
18. Herzog Presses On [4:17]
19. The Film Is Stuck [2:08]
20. Four Years Later... [1:34]
21. Credits [2:59]
1. Project Beginnings [4:46]
2. The First Film Camp [6:38]
3. Casting Changes [3:32]
4. Approaching Subjects/Burdens [5:17]
5. Various Populations at Work [3:31]
6. The Second Camp [3:17]
7. The Actors/Herzog's Approach [4:44]
8. Dangers [3:44]
9. Medical and Filming Concerns [6:54]
10. The Raid Party [5:01]
11. An Unnatural Setting/Structure [6:32]
12. Music/Ending Sensibility [2:32]
13. Land Title [4:58]
14. Herzog's Unwavering Vision [4:35]
15. Problems [4:48]
16. No Precedent/Waning Support [8:33]
17. Not a Romantic [4:27]
18. Shooting the Rapids [4:17]
19. The Aftermath [2:08]
20. Dreams Fulfilled [1:34]
21. Artists Doing Art [2:59]
Editorial Reviews
Documentarian Les Blank, who filmed Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, trained his cameras on Herzog again, as the eccentric German filmmaker made his epic, Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. Herzog's production is in trouble right from the start. He begins filming with Jason Robards playing the title role, and Mick Jagger playing Fitzcarraldo's sidekick, Wilbur. With 40 percent of the film shot, Robards becomes ill and goes back to the states, where his doctor will not let him return. Because of the delay, Jagger, with album and tour commitments, is forced to quit the production. Thinking no one can fill the rock star's shoes, Herzog jettisons Jagger's role. He eventually casts his frequent collaborator Klaus Kinski as Fitzcarraldo and begins shooting again. Violent tribal disputes and unpredictable weather hinder the shoot, but the biggest obstacle is Herzog's own quixotic and dangerous determination to film one antique boat smashing down the Amazonian rapids, and the dragging of an identical boat over a mountain from one river to another. Blank interviews members of the cast and crew, including the impoverished Indian extras, and captures the troubles of the seemingly cursed production, but his interviews with Herzog are the focal point of the film. "If I abandon this project," Herzog explains at one point, "I would be a man without dreams, and I never want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project." Herzog later made his own documentary about Kinski, My Best Fiend, which adds to the lore of this infamously difficult shoot. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide
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