Fitzcarraldo

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An intense and enthralling portrait of a driven man obsessed with capturing a shipping route on the Amazon, even though it means hauling a boat over a mountain through hostile tribal territory and defeating seemingly impossible obstacles. The boat was, of course, hauled over the mountain for real in the making of the film - Herzog's most notorious filming feat.

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2 discs. Les Blank's acclaimed making of documentary Burden Of Dreams; Commentary by Werner Herzog and producer Lucki Stipetic; Stills gallery.

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2 Stills

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Article - "The Adequate Images of Werner Herzog" by Graeme Hobbs
Tuesday 3rd February 2004

“We live in a society that has no adequate images any more, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.” Werner Herzog

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