1:29:01
And one starts to question the -
the profession itself.
1:29:06
What are your plans when this
movie's all over? What are you gonna be doing?
1:29:11
I shouldn't make movies anymore.
1:29:14
I should go to a lunatic asylum right away.
1:29:18
But I don't know.
It's, uh -
1:29:23
Very much of it is - is too crazy
and too, uh -
1:29:28
Just not - not what a man
should do in his life all the time.
1:29:33
And I feel, uh -
1:29:35
If- Even if I get that boat over the mountain
and somehow I finish that film...
1:29:41
anyone can congratulate me
and talk me into finding it marvelous.
1:29:46
I - Nobody on this earth
will convince me to be happy about all that.
1:29:52
Not - Not until the end of my days.
1:30:12
Herzog's film ends with Fitzcarraldo
achieving a victory of sorts.
1:30:17
He sells his battered steamship
and makes just enough money...
1:30:20
to bring a small-time opera troupe
to Iquitos for a single performance.
1:30:25
In the end, Herzog won
a painful victory ofhis own.
1:30:28
After months of work, using heavier equipment
and a new engineering crew from Lima...
1:30:33
he pulled the ship to the top of the hill...
1:30:35
and in November, 1981...
1:30:37
almost four years
after preproduction began...
1:30:40
the last shot of Fitzcarraldo
was completed.
1:30:56
It's not only my dreams.
1:30:58
My belief is that
all these dreams are-