Burden of Dreams (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

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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 native Indians 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.
DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
– Restored high-definition digital transfer
– Audio commentary by director Les Blank, editor and sound recordist Maureen Gosling, and Fitzcarraldo director Werner Herzog
– Dreams and Burdens, a new 38-minute video interview with Herzog
– Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), a 20-minute film by Blank featuring Herzog fulfilling a bet
– Deleted scenes
– Photo gallery of images taken by Gosling
– Theatrical trailer
Plus: An essay by film scholar Paul Arthur
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35644672
Director ‏ : ‎ Les Blank
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 34 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 15, 2016
Actors ‏ : ‎ Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Klaus Kinski, Mick Jagger, Werner Herzog
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019WMTVPG
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
Best Sellers Rank: #26,707 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV) #271 in Documentary (Movies & TV) #323 in Special Interests (Movies & TV)
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