Cast members drop like flies, a prop ship is trapped in the rapids, and director Werner Herzog makes impossible demands. Burden of Dreams is a riveting account of the crazed shooting of Fitzcarraldo, with unhinged star Klaus Kinski, and Herzog haranguing hundreds of indigenous people to pull a 320-ton steamship over a small mountain.

Anchored by an onset central interview with Herzog himself, as he details his unflinching vision for a project that took four years to pull off, violent arguments with his reliably tempestuous muse Kinski, conflicts between hostile natives and the jungle’s chaos itself, make up an electric and absorbing of example of uncompromising filmmaking.

4K Restoration executive produced by Harrod Blank, restoration by Anthony Matt, audio restoration by Nick Bergh, color by Paul Cope, & new subtitles by Maureen Gosling.