Burden of Dreams

A film about the importance of dreams and how far one person is willing to go to make those dreams reality. It chronicles German director Werner Herzog’s making of “Fitzcarraldo” in the Peruvian Amazon. Disaster after disaster befalls Herzog and “Burden of Dreams” grows into a fascinating record of an obsessed genius in the grips of an artistic passion that knows no bounds. Besieged by torrential rains, attacks by armed Indians and the loss of his leading actors, Werner Herzog endures the storm.