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Dreams and Burdens

Burden of Dreams • 38m

In this interview, recorded in Los Angeles in January 2005, Werner Herzog looks back at FITZCARRALDO through the filter of his own memory and Les Blank’s documentation of its production for BURDEN OF DREAMS.

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