Burden of Dreams - Les Blank (1982)

I haven't seen Fitzcarraldo. Can it be better then the documentary about Herzog making it? I'm sure it's a fiction version of it. Just like Apocalypse Now seems to be about Coppola's own madness too (it also has its matching documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse). But nobody is crazier than Herzog and that's why he's so likeable.

How far can a filmmaker with a dream go? How long will a crew stand by him and his dream? Herzog seems to push all of that to the limit.

This documentary isn't innovative in any way, it's very classic, so classic it becomes invisible. You forget the people making it also spent that amount of time in the middle of the jungle with the crew. That's a good thing in this case where the story it's telling is so interesting.

Burden of Dreams