
Burden of Dreams
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- 1982
- 95 min
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You wanted to know the story of Fitzcarraldo.
It's a strange story-
a little bit Sisyphus-like story or...
a story of, uh,
challenge of the impossible.
The title itself-
I will start with that -
uh, is derived from
an Irish name - Fitzgerald.
The leading character's name is
Bryan Sweeney Fitzgerald.
And since nobody can pronounce
his name in the Amazon here...
he calls himself Fitzcarraldo, and he also
founds a town with the name Fitzcarraldo.
There was a historical figure whose
name was Carlos Fermn Fitzcarrald...
a caucho baron.
I must say the story of this caucho baron
did not interest me so much.
What interested me more
was one single detail.
That was, uh,
that he crossed an isthmus...
from one river system into another...
uh, with a boat.
They disassembled the boat and -
and put it together again on the other river.
And, uh, that intrigued me to write a story
about big opera in the jungle...
and, uh, about a man
into Iquitos and build
a huge opera house.
And he fails to -
to get the money for it...
and so finally he decides
to make his fortune as a rubber baron.
And, uh, he buys a territory
which is out of reach...
because there are
very, very strong rapids...
and you can't move a big boat
into the upper tributary.
Um, and for exploiting
an area like this...
you need a big boat
for all the logistics and transports and so.
And what he does, actually, is that
he moves in a - in a parallel tributary...
because he knows there
is one geographical point...
where the two river systems
almost join.
There's only
one or two miles in between.
And with the help of, uh,
1,100 savage Indians...
he moves the boat across the -
this mountain ridge.
But it all fails because
They untie it,
and it floats downstream...
and it crashes through the rapids
and everything was in vain.
And still,
with that defeat...
Fitzcarraldo is able to turn it
in some kind of a victory-
a very painful one, and...
that's basically the story of the film.
I did not know exactly
in which territory I would end up.
Basically we had to make
a geographical decision...
where we had two rivers
very, very near to each other...
with only a mountain in between.
Less than a mile apart.
And they had to be navigable as well.
So we had very, very few options...
and wherever we would end up...
I would try to get acquainted with
the native Indians in the territory itself.
In November, 1979...
Herzog builds a camp for cast and crew...
in the dense tropical rain forest
close to the Ecuadorean border.
The geography is perfect, but Herzog
has walked into the middle of a tense situation.
Twenty-five miles from here, Peru and Ecuador
are building up to a small border war.
Thejungle is full of soldiers,
and the Aguaruna Indians...
who have lived here
for hundreds of years, are touchy.
To make matters worse,
the Peruvian government...
has been encouraging settlers
to move into thejungle-
a process the Indians are powerless to stop
without legal title to the land.
Lumber and oil interests are encroaching
on this part of the forest as well.
The Amazon jungle is disappearing fast.
Every month,
8,000 square miles are cut down.
At the present rate,
by the year 2010...
will be cleared.
The ongoing invasion of thejungle
has made the Aguaruna Indians...
see every stranger as a threat.
that he's not moving in permanently...
and the local Aguarunas
agree to let him shoot.
Herzog needs Indians
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