Burden of Dreams

Burden of Dreams

  • Director: Les Blank
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: Spanish, English, German
  • Release date: September 24, 1982
  • Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: Die Last der Träume
  • Burden of Dreams is a 1982 documentary film directed by Les Blank.

    Details

    • Release date September 24, 1982
    • Filming locations Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
    • Production companies Independent Documentary Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation

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    • By Nakia 2022-11-05 15:32:42

      to dream wildly

      "If I abandon this project, I would be a man without dreams...and I don't want to live like that. I live my life, or I end my life with this project."

      "Of course, we are challenging nature itself and it hits back. We have to accept it that it much stronger than we are."

      "If I believe in the devil, I would say the devil was right here, and is still right here. It becomes very questionable, because people lost their lives, people have been in a plane crash, and 5 of them in...

    • By Felix 2022-10-25 13:38:28

      Can Europe's spiritual crisis be alleviated in this way?

      Good crew stills can also become a documentary director. This film is a drama photo about Hersso's filming of "Overland Boat". The question is not here, the question is, in 1980, why would a European go to the rainforest to complete a Sisyphus metaphor with movies and Indians.

      After Nazi Germany's prescription for spiritual crisis and its practice failed for Germany, even Europe and mankind, peace itself cannot alleviate the spiritual crisis in Europe, and people's spiritual...

    • By Braulio 2022-10-19 15:15:28

      The madman's tribute goes beyond the madman, and reality is greater than reality

      i make films because i have not learned anything else.
      and i know i can do it to a certain degree.
      and it is my duty..
      because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are.
      and we have to articulate ourselves..
      otherwise we would be cows in the field.

      So you transported the whole iron ship to the top of the mountain. Fitzgerald finally gave up, he also broke up the boat, and he broke his confidence because the natives offered boats to the river gods...

    • By Rhett 2022-10-18 09:00:43

      thank you for taking on

      It was 5 years ago when I watched the boat on land, and I gave it 4 stars, saying that 5 stars were reserved for Hersuo's movie dream, but I didn't watch it until today. Kneeling 5 stars. (Even if I was almost freaked out by a close-up of a chicken.

      5 stars not for the film, but for the person in the

      film. The boat was about to run aground, and the person was running on the deck, on the top of the boat, jumping nimble, dialing Open branches, desperately trying to do...

    • By Angelo 2022-10-10 05:47:16

      Passionate, persistent,

      An impressive documentary about filmmaking that reflects the filmmakers' passion for cinema, in which
             Herzog said: "I'm daydreaming in the eyes of others, but I have to do it, I don't want to be a People without dreams have no meaning in such a life." He used his own experience and his films to tell people that people with dreams, whether successful or not, have proud and great souls. Dreams will be burdened, because we are burdened to dream.
             Those who really have...

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    • By Annalise 2023-09-10 19:43:42

      I was deeply impressed by Herzog's personal charm. The impact and collaboration of modern civilization and prehistoric civilization created this great work. I was greatly touched by this unyielding dream-making spirit. Thanks to the movie, I had the opportunity to dream and meet...

    • By Garret 2023-05-21 21:47:02

      "In the eyes of others, I'm daydreaming, but I must do it. I don't want to be a person without dreams. Such a life has no meaning." He used his own experience and his own movies to tell people that having Dreamers, whether successful or not, have proud and great souls. Dreams will be burdened, because we are burdened to...

    • By Allen 2023-05-20 19:53:23

      Dare to announce to the world that a daydream, and have the courage and perseverance to realize it, Herzog once again proved that the movie is indeed a dream machine; The best explanation for "man is determined to conquer the sky"; the unassuming low-key, vaguely revealing amazing firmness, I don't agree with calling him a lunatic, how delicate the testimonials about nature and human nature at the end, how lonely and pessimistic behind the...

    • By Idell 2023-05-09 15:24:47

      Boating on land is a belief. Jaw-dropping, sweating, a layer of mist floating on the Amazon River, and the big screen showed that hazy dream-like state that belonged to the person at that time and place: halo? After staying for four years, the boat crossed the hill, He Suo said that nature is so cruel, "I don't see any love thing here, I only see incest, suffocation, and struggle for survival, growth, decay." He scolded the jungle, saying that the stars in the sky were no longer bright. Well,...

    • By Everett 2023-04-19 03:17:17

      Not only are these my own dreams, but I believe these dreams are yours too. The only difference between you and me is that I can articulate it clearly, and that's what poetry, pictograph, or filmmaking is all about. This is my responsibility, because this is, perhaps, our mental journey. We have to express ourselves clearly, otherwise we are no different from salted...

    Movie quotes

    • Werner Herzog: In this case we will probably have one of the last feature films with authentic natives in it. They are fading away very quickly and its a catastrophe and a tragedy that's going on and we are losing riches and riches and riches and we lose cultures and individualities and languages and mythologies and we'll be stark naked at the end. We'll end up like all the cities in the world now with skyscrapers and a universal kind of culture like - like the American culture.

    • Werner Herzog: I don't want to live in a world where there are no lions anymore. Or, where there are no people like lions.

    • Film Crew Interviewer: Were you afraid of the gringos when you came here?

      Young Campas Native Woman: No, I wasn't afraid, because I understood what they were doing. My friend Walter told me it was all lies.

      Film Crew Interviewer: What did they tell you? That the gringos would take off your face?

      Young Campas Native Woman: Yes, they'll take off your face and use your fat for airplanes.

      Miguel Ángel Fuentes: We're not like the Jivaros who shrink heads this small.

      [laughs]

      Young Campas Native Woman: I told him I'd rather get out of here before they do that to me. When my friends arrived and saw the camps, they were really afraid. I told them, "Don't be afraid." They said "They're all just waiting to kill us." "No, no, they've been waiting for you." Atalaina told them, "The doctor will give you an injection and take your blood and put poison in your veins. You'll die by the time you get back to your village." They were so afraid.

      Miguel Ángel Fuentes: It's not true.

      Young Campas Native Woman: And, "Don't eat too much of what they offer. They give you this much. Don't eat it all, because they'll fatten you up to kill you."