Burden of Dreams

Burden of Dreams

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Release Date

10/1/1982

Runtime

97 mins

Overview

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A mesmerizing chronicle of creative hubris colliding with the Amazon's indifference, where filmmaker Werner Herzog's monomaniacal vision to move a steamship over a mountain becomes an ordeal as gripping and uncertain as the film-within-the-film itself.

Mood

Dread-soakedContemplativeDefiantEpic

Themes

ObsessionArt and creationAmbitionSurvival

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-likeNaturalistic

Structure

Framed flashback

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