Burden of Dreams - The Criterion Collection 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

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Genres: Documentary

Starring: Werner Herzog

Director: Les Blank

Plot Sypnosis:

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 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.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, supervised by filmmaker Harrod Blank, director Les Blank’s son, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
Alternate uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary featuring Les Blank, editor and sound recordist Maureen Gosling, and Fitzcarraldo director Werner Herzog
Interview with Herzog
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), a short film by Blank
Deleted scenes
Behind-the-scenes photos taken by Gosling
Trailer
New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Paul Arthur and a book of excerpts from Blank’s and Gosling’s production journals

Cover illustration by Richard May; design by Martin Ogolter