Burden of Dreams. Les Blank, 1982.
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Edition screened: Included in BFI The Werner Herzog Collection Blu-ray box set, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Edition screened: Included in BFI The Werner Herzog Collection Blu-ray box set, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: Disrespectful treatment of animals.
Details:
1) Chickens are unloaded from a small plane, 31-39-31:46. Some are alive, some have died in transit.
2) A poisonous snake is discovered, pinned down, and killed by stabs from multiple spears, 1:20:01-1:20:20.
3) A native Peruvian partially severs the wings from a dead Macaw so that the colorful bird can be displayed with maximum wing spread, 1:20:41-1:21:18.
Burden of Dreams is a documentary filmed in the Amazon jungle about the making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. Many scenes, including those mentioned above, show the daily lives of Peruvian people in the early 1980s.
The Criterion release also contains another short documentary by Blank, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.
