Burden of Dreams (1982) review — the engrossing Fitzcarraldo backstory
The production is a litany of disasters. Jason Robards, the lead actor, exits with dysentery, followed by his co-star Mick Jagger. The Robards replacement Klaus Kinski is furious with the remote Peruvian location, hissing, 'You can't escape this f***ing stinking camp!' Bulldozers break down. Ships don't work. City sex workers are bizarrely bussed in for the male crew to neutralise the possibility of intimate, and thus culturally sensitive, relations with local indigenous women.
Throughout all this there's Herzog, captain of the ship (he remains on the film's steamship when it runs aground),
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