“I haven’t wanted to get it for a long time”: 43 years ago, this wonderful film is one of the biggest documentary

In an article published in Sight & Sound in 1975, filmmaker Werner Duke stated: “When I make a movie, I feel it in my body. I like wearing gums, feeling his weight. When we come back, I have to feel and touch the movie.”

Cinema, play with death

In this sense, some collaboration on the screen and behind the scenes is as homerous, passionate, violent, and completely crazy as it was Werner Duke And Claus Kinski. This relationship of love and hatred was more brilliantly shown in the documentary of an intimate enemy in 1999. If their first collaboration, the anger, the anger of God, had problems with (a huge) group, it was still less comparable to Fitzkaraldo’s Dantesque film Real hell.

Cinema history was studied by examples of products that were chaotic. But it is very rare to conquer what can be conquered directly as the mind -book book. There are two absolute references to this issue: the extraordinary heart of darkness: filmmaker Apocalypse director Eleanor Coppola, which deals with the legendary shooting of Apocalypse, now with pictures taken on site. And the burden of dreams by Les Blank, which was done at the moment when the Duke of Fitzkaraldo turns.

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“I haven’t wanted to agree on for a long time”

Far from everything, 1400 kilometers from the first village, Duke will shoot his film in the dangerous tropical forest of Amazon. The poisonous snake plants its poison in its textbook. The latter is forced to cut the leg with a chain to survive …

A group of films also experienced the largest rain of the century, which was forced to interfere with the mud. Add to that the fire of thousands of hundreds of human camps, two aircraft crashes, the border war between Peru and Ecuador, his chief actor Jason Robard, a victim of serious dysentery, to repair emergency. And whose role will play Claus Kinski After a complete copy of the script.

The actor is still excellent in the role that was now sewn. But his hackers, whims and repeat clashes with the Duke were such that on the morning of June 15, 1981, two Machigunga Indians, most seriously offered from the world, with the director of the Kinski shooting, which no one could support. And, of course, the main event of the show: the 320 -tone ship was raised at the top of the mountain by the only force of men and in the middle of the jungle …

The burden of dreams does not interfere with this dantesque shooting. “It’s a very good movie” Will say later on the Duke of an empty documentary. “I haven’t wanted my agreement for a long time.” Even if he gave me many problems. “

Unlike the documentary of intimate enemies, which will have a merit at DVD 25 years ago (!) And Potemkine was announced in 2009 with the movie Cobra Verde, DREAMS OF DREAMS, unfortunately, ever enjoyed any publication. If you have not received imports, this documentary masterpiece is still unprecedented to us.