:10:22
Fitzcarraldo? How do you spell it?
:10:27
What an interesting name!
:10:31
My father was lrish.
My real name is Fitzgerald.
:10:34
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald.
:10:36
They had trouble saying it in Peru.
:10:38
Fitzgerald? lquitos? You're not
the man with the railway are you?
:10:44
Yeah, that's me.
:10:49
Well. . .the Trans-Andean Railway, but. . .
:10:57
. . .the project fell through.
:10:59
But the idea was a bold one.
:11:03
At the moment I'm trying my luck as
as ice producer, to make money.
:11:07
Here, all people want. . .
:11:10
. . .for their money are the
big names from Europe.
:11:16
Sarah Bernhardt, an actress
who can't even sing.
:11:21
But her wooden leg is
the talk of the town.
:11:25
The ice, ah, I mean. . .
:11:31
I'm doing all this because
I have one dream. . .
:11:35
. . .the opera.
:11:37
The Great Opera in the Jungle!
:11:40
Fitzcarraldo will build it and
Caruso will sing at the premiere.
:11:44
It's only the dreamers
who ever move mountains.
:11:52
For five years now we've been
the richest town in the whole world.
:11:58
It's like gold fever.