:10:02
that this tribe was extinguished
and wiped out.
:10:20
We are necessary
as an enemy that can be beaten...
:10:25
because they will not dare
to attack, uh...
:10:28
the, uh - the military camps.
:10:31
They will not dare to attack, uh,
the petrol companies...
:10:34
but since we are small,
we -we may be -
:10:38
uh, we may be the losers.
:10:47
Sensing imminent danger, Herzog pulls
most ofhis film crew out of thejungle.
:10:52
On December 1, 1979,
armed Indians surround the film camp...
:10:56
and order everyone
who's still there to leave.
:10:59
When the camp is empty,
the Aguarunas burn it to the ground.
:11:02
The last members
of Herzog's crew flee downriver...
:11:05
flying white flags from their canoe.
:11:14
It takes Herzog 13 months
to find a new location for thejungle camp.
:11:19
In January, 1981,
filming finally begins in Iquitos...
:11:23
1,500 miles north of the new camp.
:11:26
Iquitos is a river port city near
the headwaters of the Amazon in northern Peru...
:11:30
with a jet airport
and a population of 200,000.
:11:34
It was originally a rubber boomtown
built at the turn of the century...
:11:37
when giant fortunes were being made
overnight in the rubber business.
:11:41
This is the historical period
in which Herzog's film story is set.
:11:45
The cast features
Jason Robards as Fitzcarraldo...
:11:48
a poor, charming Irishman
who's obsessed with grand opera.
:11:52
Fitzcarraldo is determined
to build a great opera house in Iquitos...
:11:55
where his idol,
Enrico Caruso, can perform.
:11:58
His first scheme involves trying to convince
Iquitos's high society to finance the project...