Burden of Dreams – Back on the Big Screen in 4K

“An extraordinary portrait of Werner Herzog trapped in the middle of one of his wildest dreams.” – Roger Ebert

Experience the breathtaking new restoration and remastering of Les Blank's Burden of Dreams, a documentary about the unfolding of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.

For nearly five years, Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career, the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Made more perilous by his 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.

Limited season from Thursday 28 August.