Burden of dreams
1982
DVD
For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career--Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made more perilous by Herzog's determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of indigenous Peruvians to pull a full-size, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded mission of one of cinema's most fearless directors.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781681431253
- 1681431254
- 078003001X
Uniform Title: Burden of dreams (Motion picture)
Edition: Filmmaker-approved DVD special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- digital optical mono Dolby Digital 1.0
- laser optical NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982.
- Interpreting, interviewing and camera assistance by Bruce "Pacho" Lane ; interviewing, assistance camera and assistant sound by Michael Goodwin ; photographed by Les Blank ; edited by Maureen Gosling.
- Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Mick Jagger, Alfredo de Rio Tambo, Angela Reina, Carmen Correa, Elia de Rio Ene, David Perez Espinosa, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Father Mariano Gagnon, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Bohoroquez, Evaristo Nunkuag Ikanan, José Lewgoy, Laplace Martins, Thomas Mauch, Nelson de Rio Cenepa, Walter Saxer, Jorge Vignati, Werner Herzog's film crew ; (narration) spoken by Candace Laughlin.
- DVD; NTSC, region 1; monaural; full screen (1.33:1)
- In English, German, Spanish, and indigenous Peruvian languages with English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC2600D
- 11521209
- BUR120
Control Number: 1600709
UPC:
- 715515172219
- 715515172219
- 037429206829
Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection ; 287.
- The Criterion collection
- The Criterion collection ; 287.
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Other Authors:
- Arthur, Paul, 1947-2008, writer of supplementary textual content.
- Blank, Les, film producer, film director, director of photography.
- Cardinale, Claudia, 1939- interviewee (expression)
- Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
- Flower Films (Firm), production company.
- Fuentes, Miguel Angel, interviewee (expression)
- Gagnon, Mariano, interviewee (expression)
- Goodwin, Michael, 1941- screenwriter, interviewer (expression)
- Gosling, Maureen, film director, editor of moving image work.
- Herzog, Werner, 1942- interviewee (expression)
- Hittscher, Paul, -1992, interviewee (expression)
- Jagger, Mick, interviewee (expression)
- Janus Films, production company.
- Kinski, Klaus, interviewee (expression)
- Lane, Bruce, 1938- interviewer (expression)
- Laughlin, Candace, narrator.
- Lewgoy, José, interviewee (expression)
- Mauch, Thomas, 1937- interviewee (expression)
- Robards, Jason, interviewee (expression)
- Saxer, Walter, 1947- interviewee (expression)
- Von Stein, José Kochlin, film producer.