:09:02
I didn't really know
:09:05
where we were going.
:09:08
I wasn't there when they marked off
the place.
:09:12
So,
:09:13
this whole situation,
the tropical heat,
:09:17
and seeing me like this,
:09:19
facing Tarzan, made me panic.
:09:23
But there were other situations.
:09:26
Everyday was a new discovery.
:09:30
The fact of taking the same boat,
every morning,
:09:35
filled with so many passengers.
:09:38
Nobody realized,
:09:40
nor knew whether it was a safe way
:09:43
to cross the Amazon,
which was known to be
:09:47
infested with piranhas.
All this was...
:09:51
There is some kind of deformation
:09:55
which leads to the unconsciousness
of what one is going to do.
:10:01
We had fun.
:10:03
It was a movie in the movie.
Still, the film was risky.
:10:06
And we were in a place that was
:10:09
a crossroad for drug trafficking,
full of bandits
:10:13
and weird people.
:10:17
Monteleone got inpired by this place
for Hotel Colonial,
:10:21
a movie that is unfortunately
not good,
:10:25
because of its budget.
But the original subject
:10:28
was beautiful.
:10:29
It features this hotel, which
really exists in Leticia.
:10:34
And the movie tells the story
of Leticia,
:10:37
this frontier town.
:10:39
It stands at the boarder between
Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
:10:43
They are adjoining countries.
:10:48
We were young, we didn't sleep much.
:10:50
On the evening, we went for an outing.
:10:53
We did expeditions on the Amazon.
:10:56
We would steal a canoe
to cross the river,