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This is the Nariño...
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a boat that was built in 1902 in Glasgow.
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And we found this boat in Colombia
on one of the Amazon tributaries.
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Uh, it was used for-as a steamboat
up and down the Amazon...
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and later on it was used
in the, uh, war against Colombia.
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As a matter of fact, the peace treaty
was signed on that boat here.
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It was very hard to move it here.
As you see, there are many leaks.
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We had to fill the whole hull
with empty petrol drums.
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And so we kept it afloat,
and we tugged it about, uh...
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350 miles up the river,
and we put it here.
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And it should be rusty, as it is.
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And it will be one of the leading characters
in the picture that we are doing.
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Italian film star Claudia Cardinale
plays Fitzcarraldo's lover, Molly...
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the madam of an elegant brothel catering to
the wealthiest rubber barons in Iquitos.
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She uses her contacts
to help him buy a steamship he needs...
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to make enough money
to build the opera house.
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Claudia, there is also one thing.
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You could easily try to
open one of those doors.
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- Yes. This one?
- Yeah. No, not this one.
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- This here is closed.
- This one.
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This one is closed.
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So you can't do -
you can't do any-
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- Yeah. No.
- No.
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- You shouldn't open that one. Yes.
- I just try to open, but it's closed.
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- That's the only one that you should not open.
- Okay.
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Of course,
we need another boat going on the river.
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And for this reason
we have bought another boat...
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which has about the same size,
the same shape of the hull.
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The Huallaga,
which was built in 1906.
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And we rebuilt the whole boat,
and we repaired the engine...
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and we'll need a third boat-
a look-alike.