:56:08
Don Fitzcarraldo! Don Fitzcarraldo!
:56:11
You're back at last.
I'd almost given up hope.
:56:17
Look here, Amazon Terminal
ready for action.
:56:21
I see you've become a father.
:56:24
I knew you'd come back.
:56:27
I thought you'd forgotten about me
when the railroad construction ceased.
:56:32
Every year I repaint
the first class booking office.
:56:35
It looks a little weather-beaten. . .
:56:37
. . .but wait until your trains cross
the mountains from the Amazon. . .
:56:41
. . .to the Pacific,
then everything will change.
:56:43
I've been here six years now,
without payment.
:56:47
Therefore. . .
:56:49
The engine is in good working order.
:56:52
All the levers work, but. . .
:56:54
But I must confess. . .
:56:57
. . .I was forced to sell a few iron parts
to the lndians.
:57:02
They need it for their
machetes and things.
:57:07
They used to come at night
to steal parts.
:57:10
So I thought. . .
:57:13
. . .it was better to sell than
to have things stolen at night.
:57:20
I had to do it. I was left alone
and deserted on this post.
:57:24
I thought you'd been sent home
like everybody else.
:57:29
Let me show you outside.
:57:31
The tracks reach 200 meters
deep into the jungle.
:57:38
Come with me. I made an
invention to scare off the lndians.
:57:42
They've become more cautious.
I do the same thing with the snakes.
:57:45
I connect an electric line to the tracks.
:57:49
The lndians get their fingers singed.
They won't touch them again.
:57:56
I chase the snakes onto the rails
with a stick.