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Better to rest in peace in
the warm body of a friend
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than in the cold ground.
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THE PRODUCTION
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Franco Palaggi was really
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a great producer.
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I had known him for a long time.
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He had produced 'Son of Spartacus'
in Egypt.
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So,
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when I was asked to make
such a movie,
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when the Germans contacted me,
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I still had no producer.
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I thought about someone I knew .
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And I chose Francesco Palaggi.
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He was a strange man.
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He really loved cinema.
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He would never...
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He would shout like a devil
when he was angry
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but he always eventually followed
the choices of the director.
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We marked off the places together
in Colombia.
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Together we almost went round
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the whole country.
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He would take me to where they shot
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a film by Pontecorvo
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or by Rosi.
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But I wasn't satisfied.
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I couldn't find the jungle.
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So I said: 'Let's find something else
or we don't shoot the movie'.
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We left Carthagena, which was
the last stop, for Bogotá,
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to come back to Rome.
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At the airport,
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I met a Colombian documentarist.