:13:01
I am determined
to prove a villain...
:13:04
and hate the idle pleasures
of these days.
:13:10
Wilbur, you are definitely my man.
:13:22
Five weeks after filming begins,
with 40% of the picture completed...
:13:26
Jason Robards comes down with
a bad case of amebic dysentery.
:13:30
He flies home to recover,
and his doctor forbids him to return to the set.
:13:36
For Herzog,
this is an agonizing setback.
:13:38
He'll have to start all over
with a new leading actor...
:13:42
and his backers are pulling out.
:13:45
For six weeks, Herzog puts
the entire production on hold...
:13:48
while he goes looking for another star.
:13:50
Then Jagger drops out too.
:13:52
Commitments for a new album
and a concert tour...
:13:55
make it impossible for him to stay
the extra months needed...
:13:58
to reshoot the film from scratch.
:14:00
And I have decided
that I would not replace his part.
:14:04
You can't replace him.
:14:06
So I think that's, uh, biggest loss
that I have had in my career...
:14:11
as someone who makes films.
:14:14
When I came back to Germany,
and I tried to hold all the investors together...
:14:18
they said to me,
"Well, how can you continue?
:14:20
Can you - Uh, do you have the strength
or the will or the enthusiasm or so?"
:14:25
And I said,
"How can you ask this question? It is -
:14:29
"If I abandon this project,
I would be a man without dreams...
:14:33
and I don't want to live like that. "
:14:35
I - I - I live my life,
or I end my life with this project.
:14:53
In April, 1981...
:14:55
Herzog's new leading man,
Klaus Kinski...
:14:58
arrives at the Iquitos Airport.