1982Part of the Herzog & Kinski Series
To make FITZCARRALDO -- the story of a man (Kinski) who wants to drag a giant steamship over a hill from one river to another to build an opera house in the middle of the Amazon -- Herzog actually sought to drag a giant steamship from one river to another in order to make his dream film in the middle of the Amazon. It's a harrowing case of life imitating art, captured in all its insanity by Les Blank’s riveting documentary, BURDEN OF DREAMS.