:10:03
...mixed with monkey's piss,
in bristles from a hedgehog torn...
:10:07
...in a rain barrel,
where vermin crawl...
:10:09
...perished rats and the
festering slime of...
:10:13
...toad-stools, glowing at night...
:10:17
...in horses' snot and in hot glue.
:10:22
in this juice...
:10:25
...shall the slanderers stew.
:10:32
Peru, the train tracks along
the Urubamba river...
:10:37
...Kinski's and my river of
destiny so to speak.
:10:40
I wanted to retrace
some of our steps.
:10:44
The first film we did together
was "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"...
:10:48
...which started here.
:10:49
It was my sixth film and I
was 28 at the time.
:10:54
I had sent Kinski my screenplay.
:10:56
Two nights later, at 3am, I was
awakened by the phone.
:11:01
At first I couldn't figure
out what was going on.
:11:04
All I heard were inarticulate screams
at the other end of the line.
:11:08
It was Kinski.
:11:10
After about half an hour, I could
filter out from his screams...
:11:15
...that he was ecstatic about the
screenplay and wanted to be Aguirre.
:11:23
The shooting of "Aguirre" was
faced with two pressing problems.
:11:29
One was the budget.
:11:30
AGUIRRE,
THE WRATH OF GOD
:11:31
Today, it is inconceivable that we
made the film with only $370,000.
:11:40
No one was interested
in financing it, and what's more...
:11:44
...later, no one even wanted to
see the film for years.
:11:51
Kinski was the next problem.
:11:54
At the time, he had just cut
short a Jesus tour.