With Fitzcarraldo, one of his most renowned films, acclaimed German director Werner Herzog emulates Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' in this mammoth epic set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Klaus Kinski gives an exceptional performance as the wild-eyed entrepreneur Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (the Indians call him Fitzcarraldo) who dreams of bringing opera to the jungle and is literally driven mad by his passion for music.

Les Blank's award-winning documentary Burden Of Dreams follows the making of the film which parallels the quest to bring opera to the jungle with the director's own determination to see his project to the screen.