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Burden of dreams, Janus Films ; Flower Films in association with José Koechlin von Stein presents ; a film by Les Blank with Maureen Gosling ; narration written by Michael Goodwin ; produced and directed by Les Blank

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Burden of dreams

videorecording DVD

Janus Films ; Flower Films in association with José Koechlin von Stein presents ; a film by Les Blank with Maureen Gosling ; narration written by Michael Goodwin ; produced and directed by Les Blank

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Criterion collection, 287

Walter Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo is the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effectsFor 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

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