Burden of Dreams
Burden of Dreams is a 1982 makingof documentary film directed by Les Blank, shot during and about the chaotic production of Werner Herzogs 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, and filmed on location in the jungles of South America.
Blank would often ask Herzog to repeat statements while being filmed that he originally made offcamera. 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. Goodwin led him around to something that sparked him off on that tangent again. Thats how we got the speech.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. ........
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