Burden of Dreams captures legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious film Fitzcarraldo, in which an entrepreneur (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle.

In English, Spanish & German with English subtitles.

“Blank created an enduring record of hubris, exploitation and
unrelenting misadventure in the pursuit of artistic greatness.”
Zachary Barnes – The Wall Street Journal