: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...
:12:03
but to no avail.
:12:05
Mick Jagger plays Fitzcarraldo's sidekick...
:12:08
a simpleminded actor named Wilbur.
:12:12
Hey!
:12:15
Hey! Hey!
:12:17
Ho! Ho!
:12:19
- We want the opera in Iquitos!
- We want the opera in Iquitos!
:12:23
We need opera here!
Don't you want...
:12:25
- We need the opera in Iquitos!
- Music in your souls?
:12:28
- In your ear!
- Come! Come and join us!
:12:34
Jesus.
:12:38
Momento. Un momento.
:12:54
And therefore,
since I cannot prove a lover...
:12:59
to entertain
these fair well-spoken days...