{369}{411}First...

{414}{504}...cast the beam out|of thine own eye...

{510}{647}...and then the mote from mine.
{951}{1066}- Jesus takes off his shirt...|- And lets others speak.
{1080}{1169}...he kneels before the first one...
{1244}{1318}...washing his dusty feet|with his shirt.
{1633}{1743}I am not the Jesus of|the official Church...
{1809}{1891}...who the police, bankers...
{1894}{2001}...judges, hangmen, officers,|church bosses, politicians...
{2006}{2090}...and other powerful|people tolerate.
{2126}{2197}I am not your Superstar.
{2301}{2387}Shut the fuck up!
{2399}{2506}Come up here, bigmouth.
{2573}{2625}I'm not a great speaker...
{2627}{2776}...but maybe some of you seek|Christ. But I don't think this is Him.
{2784}{2898}Because Christ was tolerant...
{2900}{3062}...and if someone contradicted Him,|He would not tell them to shut up.
{3070}{3139}No, He didn't say shut up.
{3142}{3190}He took a whip...
{3194}{3266}...and smacked their ugly faces!
{3268}{3324}That's what He did...
{3333}{3369}...you stupid pig!
{3398}{3509}And if only one of you wants...
{3512}{3559}...to hear me...
{3562}{3617}...he has to wait...
{3620}{3709}...until this fucking scum has left.
{4096}{4130}If I may quote.
{4132}{4262}"Thou shalt recognise them by|their works." That's what counts.
{4838}{4921}Munich, 3 Elisabeth Street
{5234}{5289}How do you do, Mr. Herzog?
{5291}{5408}Herr von der Recke, I hope you|are prepared for this invasion.
{5412}{5437}Yes, we are.
{5467}{5582}You do know, that this apartment|has a very special meaning for me.
{5593}{5669}As a thirteen-year-old|schoolboy, I used to live here...
{5674}{5760}...with my mother and|my two brothers.
{5765}{5820}This was a small, rather shabby|boarding house...
{5822}{5888}-...now restored of course.|- That was in the Fifties?
{5897}{5961}I was just thirteen.
{5974}{6099}The odd thing was that I lived here|with Klaus Kinski for 3 months.
{6104}{6139}Oh, really?
{6144}{6201}It was a chain of coincidences.
{6207}{6314}The owner of the boarding house,|Klara Rieth, an elderly lady of 65...
{6322}{6435}...with wildly dyed orange hair, had|a soft spot for starving
artists...
{6446}{6544}...as she herself had come|from a family of artists.
{6547}{6667}Kinski had been living nearby|in an attic, without furniture...
{6675}{6777}...just bare beams, and everything|covered knee-high with dead leaves.
{6783}{6870}He posed as a starving artist and|walked around stark-naked.
{6876}{6899}Stark-naked?
{6906}{6934}Yes, when the postman rang...
{6942}{7078}...Kinski rustled through his leaves,|stark-naked, and signed.
{7083}{7118}Where was that?
{7138}{7205}Somewhere nearby.
{7210}{7248}But he wore clothes|when he lived here, I hope?
{7250}{7338}Yes, but from the very first|moment, he terrorised everyone.
{7347}{7447}There were 8 parties living here.|He locked himself into the
bathroom...
{7464}{7506}The bath over there...
{7514}{7608}- Wasn't there a door there?|- Yes, it led to the bathroom.
{7614}{7666}- May we?|- Yes, go ahead.
{7728}{7829}This room, to the left, was bigger.
{7840}{7905}Yes, we enlarged the bathroom.
{7914}{7982}That's where we used to live,|my mother and the three boys.
{7991}{8058}The four of us in just|one single room.
{8062}{8169}There were bunks. We were rather|poor, and my mother tried somehow...
{8199}{8297}...to take part in the economic|miracle but got left behind.
{8302}{8433}This bath was smaller because|our room reached up to here.
{8462}{8621}Kinski had locked himself in this|bathroom for 2 days and 2 nights.
{8629}{8687}For forty-eight hours.
{8707}{8795}In his maniacal fury, he smashed|everything to smithereens.
{8806}{8889}The bathtub, the toilet bowl -|everything.
{8895}{9032}You could sift it through a tennis|racket. It was really incredible.
{9040}{9185}I never thought it possible that|someone could rave for 48 hours.
{9198}{9307}They called the police in the end,|but they left him in peace.
{9354}{9494}He was put up there,|in a tiny staff room.
{9497}{9546}- May l?|- Please, go ahead.
{9553}{9637}It was completely different, then,|there was a long corridor...
{9665}{9755}...and here there were one,|two, three small rooms.
{9760}{9798}Yes.
{9801}{9911}And here must have been|a wall and an entrance.
{9918}{9978}The corridor went along here.
{9993}{10067}And this here was Kinski's room.
{10070}{10163}There was only room for|a bed and a small night table.
{10166}{10224}And that was his window|looking onto the backyard.
{10242}{10382}One day, Kinski took a huge|running start down the corridor...
{10398}{10484}...while we were eating. I heard|a strange noise and then...
{10490}{10624}...in an explosion the door came off|its hinges crashing into the
room.
{10636}{10787}He must have jumped against it at|full speed, and now he stood
there...
{10797}{10898}...flailing wildly, completely|hysterical, snow-white in the face.
{10909}{10997}He was foaming at the mouth,|and he moved like this...
{11014}{11085}Something came floating down|like leaves -they were his shirts...
{11098}{11130}...his screams were incredibly shrill.
{11132}{11207}He could actually break|wine glasses with his voice.
{11217}{11390}And three octaves too high he|screamed, 'Klara! You pig!'
{11399}{11470}The thing was, she hadn't ironed|his shirt collars neatly enough.
{11481}{11633}Klara had him living here for free,|fed him and did his laundry.
{11643}{11746}One day a theatre critic had|been invited for dinner.
{11757}{11900}He hinted that having watched a|play in which Kinski had a small
roll...
{11908}{11987}...he would mention him as|outstanding and extraordinary.
{12002}{12129}At once, Kinski threw 2 hot potatoes|and the cutlery into his face.
{12154}{12212}He jumped up and screamed:
{12224}{12275}"l was not excellent!
{12278}{12354}I was not extraordinary!
{12364}{12423}I was monumental!
{12429}{12498}I was epochal!"
{12506}{12610}All this made a very deep|impression on me then...
{12620}{12714}...and that I would work with him|later and make five feature
films...
{12724}{12792}You would never|have thought that.
{12794}{12846}No, that was never on|my horizon at the time.
{12867}{12938}It was beyond my|furthest thoughts.
{12940}{13053}Did he ever have any training as|an actor while he was here?
{13070}{13116}He was self-taught.
{13128}{13238}At times you could hear him in|his closet, for ten hours non-stop...
{13259}{13331}...doing his voice and|speaking-exercises.
{13351}{13406}It was absolutely incredible.
{13421}{13530}He pretended to be a genius who|had fallen straight from heaven...
{13546}{13619}...and who had obtained his|gift by the grace of God.
{13630}{13755}In reality, it was incredible, how|much he trained himself.
{13766}{13865}At that time, during his poetry|recitals, he still had this
artificial...
{13878}{14014}...theatre intonation of the Fifties,|a kind of a snorting snarl.
{14025}{14103}He mastered it to perfection.
{14156}{14207}And this is where I lived with him...
{14214}{14318}...and so knew what to expect,|if I was to work with him.
{14345}{14468}...salt-peter, blazing|phosphorous...
{14470}{14565}...in the urine of a|donkey in heat...
{14567}{14661}...in snakes' poison,|old hags' spittle...
{14664}{14785}...in dog shit and|foul bath-water...
{14788}{14929}...in wolf's milk, gall of oxen|and flooded latrines,
{14946}{15018}In this juice...
{15037}{15150}...thou shalt stew|the slanderers,
{15154}{15223}In a tomcat's brain|who ceased to fish...
{15248}{15333}...in the foam that dribbles|from the teeth of rabid dogs...
{15343}{15440}...mixed with monkey's piss,|in bristles from a hedgehog torn...
{15446}{15509}...in a rain barrel,|where vermin crawl...
{15511}{15597}...perished rats and the|festering slime of...
{15602}{15702}...toad-stools, glowing at night...
{15706}{15786}...in horses' snot and in hot glue,
{15817}{15871}In this juice...
{15899}{16033}...shall the slanderers stew,
{16090}{16185}Peru, the train tracks along|the Urubamba river...
{16195}{16268}... Kinski's and my river of|destiny so to speak.
{16276}{16368}I wanted to retrace|some of our steps.
{16375}{16458}The first film we did together|was "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"...
{16467}{16505}...which started here.
{16515}{16605}It was my sixth film and I|was 28 at the time.
{16618}{16678}I had sent Kinski my screenplay.
{16684}{16798}Two nights later, at 3am, I was|awakened by the phone.
{16802}{16861}At first I couldn't figure|out what was going on.
{16870}{16982}All I heard were inarticulate screams|at the other end of the line.
{16989}{17031}It was Kinski.
{17036}{17130}After about half an hour, I could|filter out from his screams...
{17142}{17257}...that he was ecstatic about the|screenplay and wanted to be
Aguirre.
{17364}{17488}The shooting of "Aguirre" was|faced with two pressing problems.
{17498}{17537}One was the budget.
{17539}{17563}Aguirre,|THE WRATH OF GOD
{17566}{17747}Today, it is inconceivable that we|made the film with only $370,000.
{17779}{17874}No one was interested|in financing it, and what's more...
{17880}{18021}...Later, no one even wanted to|see the film for years.
{18047}{18122}Kinski was the next problem.
{18134}{18277}At the time, he had just cut|short a Jesus tour.
{18287}{18407}He had appeared in huge arenas,|in the Deutschland Halle in Berlin...
{18415}{18499}...and the audience merely|wanted to watch him rave.
{18506}{18689}He was laughed at, had terrible|fits and raved and screamed...
{18699}{18821}...and arrived here at our location as|a derided, misunderstood
Jesus.
{18826}{18923}He had wholly identified with his|role and continued to live on in
it.
{18930}{19038}Often, it was difficult to talk to him,|because he answered like
Jesus.
{19073}{19177}In his earlier phase you could|watch him in similar self-
stylisations.
{19184}{19290}As Franois Villon,|the poor, vagrant poet.
{19306}{19462}Then as Dostoyevsky's idiot,|and later in his life, as Paganini.
{19498}{19649}What is more, he had been|fascinated by the screenplay...
{19667}{19797}...which had a different beginning|from the finished film.
{19802}{19944}In the script, there was a scene on|a glacier at an altitude of
17,000 ft.
{19957}{20069}A huge procession of altitude sick|pigs advances towards you.
{20081}{20216}Only later would you realize that|this was part of a Spanish army...
{20234}{20453}...of adventurers, accompanied|by 800 or a 1000 Indian auxiliaries.
{20473}{20525}All this was cut from the script.
{20537}{20690}Nevertheless, Kinski arrived|with half a ton of alpine equipment.
{20701}{20922}He brought tents, sleeping bags,|crampons and ice axes.
{20931}{21007}He badly wanted to expose|himself to wild nature...
{21021}{21091}...but had some rather insipid|ideas about it.
{21102}{21175}Mosquitos were not allowed in|his jungle, neither was rain.
{21196}{21382}After establishing him in his tent,|it started to rain and he got
wet.
{21401}{21489}So, he immediately had one of|his raving fits during the first night.
{21505}{21688}The next day we built a roof of|palm leaves above his tent.
{21698}{21846}Still discomforted, he moved|into the hotel of Machu Picchu.
{21854}{21945}At the time, there was only one|hotel with eight rooms.
{21954}{22010}There was nothing here either...
{22016}{22143}...except for a single hut|where I used to sleep.
{22160}{22221}A native Indian woman lived there.
{22242}{22302}A hunch-backed dwarf|with nine children.
{22311}{22441}She also had 100-150 guinea-pigs,|which were there to eat.
{22449}{22537}At night they crawled all over me,|and that was uncomfortable.
{22548}{22672}So, I moved in with the Indians.|450 Indians from the highlands...
{22681}{22794}...from an altitude of 15,000 ft.,|who stayed in this big barn.
{22812}{22991}In a radius of about 100 miles, no|possibility to find shelter
existed.
{23004}{23073}I slept in there with them.
{23079}{23169}The last two days before shooting|started were rather chaotic.
{23178}{23283}I tried to establish some order and|worked 2 days and nights
straight.
{23295}{23373}Before going to sleep at dawn,|for one hour, I told them:
{23380}{23493}Please, wake me up when you take|off in the train, but they forgot.
{23502}{23639}I had been forgotten and in a|white hot panic I realized...
{23648}{23733}...the train was taking off. I was fully|dressed, apart from my
shoes.
{23738}{23848}I ran after the departing train, 200|yards barefoot, across broken
stone.
{23854}{23998}With bleeding feet I barely|reached a step and got on.
{24014}{24108}That was perhaps the most|important shooting day in my life.
{24155}{24272}When I finally arrived up here,|there was a dense fog.
{24278}{24380}Everything was clouded over|and it was pouring rain.
{24404}{24472}You could only see|as far as 100 ft.
{24485}{24561}The mountain back there was|completely enshrouded in cloud.
{24569}{24614}You couldn't see anything,|except gray clouds.
{24637}{24700}There was indescribable chaos.
{24804}{24948}On top of that, there was a big|problem with Kinski.
{24986}{25102}First, he realized he would|only be a dot in the landscape...
{25116}{25169}...and not the centre of attention.
{25179}{25318}He wanted to act in close-up with a|grim face, leading the entire
army.
{25350}{25473}I explained to him, that he wasn't|yet the leader of this
expedition...
{25482}{25554}...for that was Gonzalo Pizarro.
{25573}{25633}It was very difficult...
{25646}{25745}...because Kinski simply wasn't the|centre of attention in this
scene.
{25763}{25927}Secondly, our concept of|landscape differed profoundly.
{25944}{26032}He wanted the shot to embrace|all of scenic Machu Picchu...
{26039}{26190}...including the peak, just like a|Hollywood-style movie...
{26211}{26359}...with the landscape as a beautiful|backdrop, exploited for the
scene.
{26366}{26439}Commercials work that way.|Postcards look like that...
{26444}{26516}...but I wanted an ecstatic|detail of that landscape...
{26529}{26669}...where all the drama, passion and|human pathos became visible.
{26674}{26821}He just didn't understand this,|but for me it was something crucial.
{26831}{26951}A landscape with almost|human qualities.
{27009}{27146}Kinski replied, the only fascinating|landscape on this earth...
{27154}{27248}...was the human face.
{27257}{27339}After that I removed him|from this shot.
{27342}{27437}I also had the feeling that this|scene without any faces...
{27446}{27525}...would stick in the spectators'|minds for a long time.
{27536}{27633}Kinski raved about my|being a megalomaniac.
{27646}{27748}I answered him back:|"That makes two of us!"
{27893}{27987}Finally, at 11 am, everything|opened up, and here...
{27997}{28140}...on the right-hand side, very|strangely, the clouds stayed put...
{28147}{28266}...and to the left they parted and|then the file of people came down.
{28279}{28408}While we were shooting, l|had a very profound feeling...
{28422}{28532}...as if the grace of God was with|this film and with me.
{28541}{28599}As if I were witnessing|something extraordinary...
{28606}{28681}...which I would never see again.
{28802}{28946}I can say, that on this day I definitely|came to know my own destiny.
{29699}{29792}2000 ft. below Machu Picchu, the|Urubamba flows around...
{29800}{29907}...the lnka Site and the|rocky peak nearby.
{29918}{29977}During the dry season|the boulders are in the open...
{29986}{30114}...but the water can|rise rapidly here by 40 feet.
{30235}{30345}This is what the same|place looks like at high water.
{30353}{30491}It seemed to me like a metaphor|for our turbulent relationship.
{30494}{30601}If you want someone to be|agitated, let him be agitated!
{30673}{30815}- Fucking shoot! Let's shoot this shit!|- The camera won't roll now.
{30830}{30898}It's an insult!|You have to beg me,
{30909}{31046}...even David Lean did that|and Brecht too.
{31049}{31154}- You will do it as well, my dear!|- I will not. -We shall see!
{31156}{31221}- I will not do it.|- We shall see!
{31301}{31369}I couldn't care less what|Brecht and David Lean did.
{31516}{31617}What was the reason for|inflicting this on myself?
{31627}{31710}At age 15, I had seen Kinski|in the anti-war film:
{31722}{31781}"Children, Mothers and a General."
{31790}{31883}He plays a lieutenant who|leads schoolboys to the front.
{31999}{32066}Maximilian Schell also|plays a small part.
{32072}{32137}He falls in love|and wants to desert.
{32146}{32221}Kinski will have him shot for|that the next morning.
{32223}{32305}Don't be afraid,|I haven't seen a girl in 3 years,
{32306}{32361}Hey, you! Go away!
{32382}{32423}That bastard,
{32433}{32507}Are you coming?|I shall wait outside, o,k,?
{32534}{32606}Do me this favour, please,
{32654}{32786}The mothers of the boys and the|soldiers go to sleep for a few hours.
{32791}{32893}Kinski is awakened at daybreak,|and the way he wakes up...
{32898}{32956}...will forever stay in my memory.
{33025}{33062}Yes, we have to leave,
{33067}{33180}This one moment, repeated here,|impressed me so profoundly...
{33183}{33271}...that later, it was a decisive|factor in my professional life.
{33437}{33473}Yes, we have to leave,
{33654}{33756}Strange, how memory can|magnify something like that.
{33764}{33850}The following scene, where he|orders Maximilian Schell to be shot...
{33858}{33924}...seems much more|impressive to me today.
{34028}{34059}Now!
{34187}{34297}- Will he be shot?|- It's outrageous, you can't do this!
{34306}{34404}You have to listen to him, at least,|We beg you,
{34423}{34539}But this is murder!|It can't be decided just like that!
{34542}{34579}Lately it can,
{34836}{34922}Lima, the airport.
{34937}{35032}On the traces of the past,|I met Justo Gozalez...
{35040}{35153}...who works here as a tourist|guide and has been waiting for me.
{35159}{35265}He was one of the Spanish|soldiers from Aguirre's expedition.
{35274}{35420}We hadn't seen each|other for more than 25 years.
{35560}{35669}22nd of February, We are|suffering terrible hardship,
{35682}{35762}The men have a fever|and are hallucinating,
{35770}{35836}Hardly anybody can|still keep on his legs,
{35842}{35956}The soldier Justo Gonzalez drank|my ink, thinking it was medicine,
{35976}{36084}I can't write anymore,|We are drifting in circles,
{36415}{36504}Here, at the left of the picture,|Justo Gonzalez then...
{36510}{36660}... in the role of a Spanish|adventurer, exhausted by fever.
{37207}{37341}In all scenes of the movie, Kinski|had an intense aggressiveness...
{37346}{37427}...being at the same time|cold-blooded and calculating.
{37447}{37552}In one of the scenes we attacked an|Indian village which we burnt
down.
{37567}{37711}Kinski assaulted the extras who were|distracted by the food they
found.
{37742}{37885}He flailed wildly at us and|hit my head with his sword.
{38133}{38209}Luckily my iron helmet|protected me.
{38219}{38370}He hit so hard that I suffered a|considerable wound on my head.
{38376}{38460}I didn't lose consciousness,|but suffered massive bleeding.
{38564}{38630}And without your helmet,|what would have happened?
{38643}{38691}Without the helmet,|he could have killed me.
{38702}{38751}He would have split my skull.
{38761}{38848}He was precise in|aiming at my helmet...
{38860}{39036}...but always impulsive, aggressive,|out of control. Hitting
everyone.
{39113}{39166}And afterwards?
{39174}{39327}Afterwards, this scar remained.|It's still visible today.
{39505}{39649}That same night, after shooting,|we extras were relaxing.
{39668}{39716}We drank a little and played cards.
{39732}{39810}Klaus Kinski became irate|and aggressive over this.
{39823}{39894}Apparently he wanted to show|that he was a tough guy...
{39905}{39999}...and with his Winchester he shot|three bullets into our hut.
{40010}{40145}We were 45 men cramped together|in there and he wounded one of us.
{40159}{40291}He shot off his fingertip. There|was so much blood, I was afraid...
{40301}{40391}...that the man was hit in the body,|but it was only the middle
finger.
{40402}{40485}The extra's name was Araos.
{40488}{40577}The trajectory of the bullets...
{40587}{40729}did they penetrate the roof diagonally|from above and then into the
floor?
{40734}{40825}No, he shot straight|through the wall.
{40864}{40917}He hated everybody...
{40921}{41089}...was impulsive, unpredictable,|half-mad. He was not quite normal.
{41107}{41206}Aggressive.|A diabolical character.
{41214}{41298}He always went around armed.
{41402}{41483}One day you threatened|him with death.
{41495}{41555}You couldn't take it any longer...
{41561}{41623}...when he wanted to walk out|before the end of shooting.
{41638}{41688}A lot of scenes were still missing.
{41692}{41772}And how many sacrifices|had we made?
{41946}{42089}A few days journey from Machu|Picchu, down the Urubamba river.
{42106}{42281}Here, at the rapids of the Pongo,|we shot parts of "Fitzcarraldo".
{42303}{42418}During the dry season, with|the water at its lowest level...
{42426}{42500}...this is quite harmless.
{42912}{43060}Kinski was a peculiar mixture of|physical cowardice and courage.
{43082}{43181}A wasp nearby could cause him|to scream for his mosquito net...
{43187}{43272}...and for a doctor with a syringe.
{43290}{43406}I shall never forget one moment,|that was right here in the Pongo.
{43441}{43555}We had managed to drag our|huge ship up to here, inch by inch...
{43562}{43700}...against the current. The water|rises 30 feet higher here...
{43719}{43806}...and then all hell breaks loose.
{43812}{43941}Both to the right and left, we had|fastened 60 steel cables to the
rock...
{43948}{44050}...so that the boat was able|to pull itself up with the winches.
{44062}{44113}All that took about eleven days...
{44122}{44250}...just to pull the boat|half a mile into these rapids.
{44259}{44326}Then something|unexpected happened.
{44335}{44426}The water rose another 6 feet|and the 14 steel cables...
{44434}{44607}...each with a diameter of 3 inches|were torn up with a single jerk.
{44857}{45022}The boat capsized, laying|almost horizontally in the water.
{45050}{45166}More bizarre, there was a pregnant|woman on board. The cook's wife.
{45183}{45227}The cook in mortal fear...
{45230}{45330}...Looking for something vertical,|jumped on half a pig.
{45338}{45442}He clutched it and went|swinging on this pig.
{45450}{45567}Later on, he had to endure some|jokes about this of course...
{45575}{45610}Kinski knew about this incident.
{45620}{45702}We did some shooting here,|without any crew on board...
{45711}{45816}...and the boat was hurled into|the rocks with such an impact...
{45822}{46016}...that the keel was wrapped around|itself like the lid of a sardine
tin.
{46033}{46141}The anchor had penetrated|the thick metal wall.
{46149}{46242}Everyone knew it,|including Kinski.
{46251}{46449}I then thought we should shoot|with a couple of cameras on board.
{46453}{46568}We had six volunteers and|suddenly Kinski said...
{46582}{46633}"if you go on board,|I'm coming with you.
{46641}{46692}If you sink, I shall sink too."
{47120}{47211}Look, you can stop it again...|at the beginning.
{47370}{47422}This is a real|gramophone needle?
{47425}{47545}No, that's a normal|sewing needle.
{47793}{47893}Paul, good luck to you.
{47946}{47998}If you fall off, I'll catch you.
{48066}{48105}What happened?
{48140}{48173}Pongo,
{48177}{48243}We are drifting through the Pongo!
{48466}{48611}While we were shooting, one|of the impacts was so violent...
{48621}{48736}... I remember seeing the lense|shooting out of the camera.
{48744}{48859}It flew off, and the camera man,|Thomas Mauch, I tried holding him...
{48864}{48940}...he flew 25 or 30 ft. through|the air with me.
{48950}{49038}The camera weighs about 40 lbs.|He held it on his shoulder...
{49048}{49209}...it hit the deck so hard that|his hand was split apart...
{49221}{49257}...between these two fingers.
{49260}{49392}What a pity, Klaus, that you|ran away before the boat struck.
{49399}{49469}But that was the whole idea!|I'm not an idiot!
{49496}{49590}We flew forward and the lens...
{49601}{49695}That's when I ran!
{49814}{49857}This lens here flew off.|-That was the idea.
{49860}{49894}The rock came even closer.
{49896}{49976}I ran back screaming:|"The engine!"
{49978}{50089}Then the impact and you flew.|Perfect timing.
{50585}{50707}There were moments, too,|when Kinski instinctively knew...
{50735}{50794}...that he went too far.
{50810}{50893}And in moments like that he|was a coward, thank God.
{50902}{51002}There was an incident|at Rio Nanay...
{51009}{51074}...that was the last phase of|the shooting of "Aguirre".
{51090}{51257}As so often, he didn't know his|lines, and would look for a victim.
{51274}{51328}Suddenly he screamed like mad:
{51333}{51407}"You pig!" meaning the|assistant camera man.
{51411}{51449}"He grinned!"
{51456}{51505}I was supposed to fire him at once.
{51514}{51687}Of course I wouldn't fire him, or|else the whole team would leave.
{51698}{51782}He suddenly packed his|things in dead earnest...
{51793}{51894}...resolved to leave our location,|packing everything in a speedboat.
{51902}{52027}I knew he had broken 30, 40,|50 contracts before this.
{52033}{52093}Only shortly before he|had broken up a tour.
{52102}{52263}He ruined theatre engagements|and I knew he was leaving for good.
{52284}{52373}I went up to him, very composed,|by the way, I was not armed...
{52386}{52521}...Later on, he tried to change|things around to save face.
{52536}{52601}I went up to him and said:|"You can't do this.
{52610}{52684}The movie is more important|than our personal emotions...
{52701}{52780}...even more important|than our persons and...
{52791}{52891}...this can't be permitted.|This simply will not be!"
{52902}{52989}He said: "No, I'm leaving now".
{52994}{53145}I told him, I had a rifle and by the|time he'd reach the next bend...
{53196}{53324}...there'd be 8 bullets in his head|and the ninth one would be mine.
{53340}{53458}He instinctively knew that this|wasn't a joke anymore.
{53463}{53552}He screamed for the|police like a madman.
{53565}{53692}However, the next police station|was at least 300 miles away.
{53699}{53807}The press later wrote that I directed|him from behind the camera...
{53814}{53885}...with a loaded rifle.
{53887}{53920}Of course, this wasn't true...
{53922}{54040}...but he was very disciplined during|the last days of shooting.
{54042}{54118}The beast had been|domesticated after all...
{54126}{54266}...and pressed into shape, so that|his true madness and energy...
{54278}{54368}...were contained within the|frame of a screen image.
{54377}{54471}I thank his cowardice|and his instincts...
{54476}{54525}...for a magnificent ending|of "Aguirre".
{54712}{54843}When we reach the sea,|we'll build a bigger boat and...
{54850}{54978}...with it we'll sail north and take|Trinidad away from the Spanish
Crown,
{55152}{55263}From there we'll go on and|take Mexico from Cortez,
{55329}{55411}What a great betrayal that will be!
{55438}{55530}We will then control all|of New Spain...
{55536}{55614}...and we will stage history...
{55622}{55697}...as others stage plays,
{56233}{56312}I, the Wrath of God...
{56346}{56414}...will marry my own daughter...
{56447}{56531}...and with her found|the purest dynasty...
{56551}{56612}...ever known to man,
{56628}{56773}Together we will rule the|whole of this continent,
{56947}{56997}We will endure,
{57047}{57114}I am the Wrath of God...
{57148}{57206}...who else is with me?
{57418}{57473}I was with him...
{57482}{57556}Kinski and I complemented each|other in a strange way.
{57563}{57631}I think, he needed me just as|much as I needed him.
{57642}{57765}Only in public, he could never admit|it. It bothered him very much.
{57772}{57916}In his autobiography, which is|highly fictitious, he describes me...
{57922}{58010}...our relationship.|I shall read some of it.
{58017}{58145}He speaks of Herzog's "derangement|insolence, impudence, brutality...
{58153}{58265}...dimwittedness, megalomania, lack|of talent" and it goes on like
that.
{58272}{58345}He continuous: "Any elaboration|would be a waste of time."
{58352}{58456}Nevertheless, page after page,|he comes back to me...
{58465}{58544}...almost like an|obsessive compulsion.
{58552}{58731}In some passages of this book,|I kind of had a hand in them.
{58740}{58879}I helped him to invent|particularly vile expletives.
{58886}{58994}He lived near here, a little higher|up, and we often walked along
here.
{58999}{59114}Sometimes we sat on a wooden|bench, looking over the landscape...
{59126}{59215}...or we sat by this tree|musing, and he said:
{59229}{59323}"Werner, nobody will read this book|if I don't write bad stuff about
you.
{59330}{59434}If I wrote that we get along well|together, nobody would buy it.
{59442}{59520}The scum only wants to hear|about the dirt, all the time."
{59532}{59684}I came with a dictionary and we tried|to find even fouler
expressions.
{59694}{59785}He did use some of them and|we often laughed about it.
{59809}{59950}Yet, a lot of these outbreaks of|hatred were certainly authentic.
{59957}{59990}And this applies to both of us.
{60007}{60084}Nevertheless, we|worked together again.
{60922}{61014}"Woyzeck" was shot in the|small Czech town of Telc.
{61021}{61114}Eva Mattes was Kinski's|partner in the role of Marie.
{61131}{61232}She was one of the few women|who had anything good to say...
{61240}{61285}...about Kinski.
{61294}{61389}There, under those arches,|we shot quite a lot...
{61435}{61502}...and on the square out there too.
{61513}{61658}Kinski had arrived exhausted from|the shooting of "Nosferatu".
{61662}{61775}We had only 5 days in between. He|was able to grow some stubbles...
{61802}{61955}...and he was in a peculiar, fragile|and sensitive mood.
{61982}{62088}How would you describe him?|He was different with you.
{62098}{62249}Yes, that kind of exhaustion can|stimulate you to reach rare heights.
{62258}{62342}He was a very professional actor...
{62348}{62432}...the most professional|I have ever known.
{62437}{62581}And he certainly exploited this,|this fragility you just mentioned...
{62592}{62709}...which is almost like a gift for|Woyzeck, if you bring it with
you...
{62723}{62785}...in such a moment of exhaustion.
{62810}{62902}I respected him totally,|but it was mutual.
{62914}{62982}I was anxiously looking|forward to working with him...
{62987}{63046}...because I knew him to|be a mad actor.
{63055}{63136}I got to know him|as a powerhouse...
{63141}{63221}...you just had to plug into.
{63310}{63370}Do you know how long|it has been, Marie?
{63398}{63450}At Whitsuntide it has|been two years,
{63500}{63563}And do you know|how long it will be?
{63634}{63694}I have to go and prepare supper,
{63717}{63783}- You two weren't merely actors.|- That's right.
{63790}{63966}There was a strong intuition.|He was a terribly intuitive actor.
{63984}{64109}And I am the same. There is|a scene in Woyzeck where...
{64113}{64143}...Woyzeck says to Marie:
{64167}{64222}"You have such a beautiful|mouth, and no blister on it."
{64231}{64359}The next day, I had a white blister|in the middle of my lip.
{64366}{64492}Never before in my life did I have a|blister on my lip and never
after.
{64520}{64658}He saw it the following day and|made some vulgar jokes about it.
{64665}{64716}But the whole thing|was very strange.
{64719}{64893}There was a great intensity|between us, or rather he had it...
{64898}{64996}...and I had it. And I can't|describe it any further.
{65066}{65129}The situation in the film|is the following:
{65138}{65198}Marie has an affair|with a drum major.
{65207}{65341}Woyzeck, drifting towards insanity,|has reason to be suspicious.
{65388}{65440}This scene, like almost|everything in Woyzeck...
{65450}{65540}...was filmed in a single|take without a cut.
{65930}{65976}Is it still you?
{66034}{66073}Really...
{66141}{66194}...I can't see a thing,
{66197}{66284}You look so strange,|Franz, I'm frightened,
{66319}{66370}I can't see anything,
{66453}{66502}I can't see anything,
{66581}{66680}One should see it,|grab it with one's fists,
{66682}{66759}What's the matter, Franz?|Your brain is raging,
{66766}{66829}Many folks go through this lane,
{66838}{66939}You talk with whom you want,|What does it matter to me,
{66953}{67000}There...there he stood?
{67150}{67194}Like this with you?
{67236}{67276}I wish it had been me,
{67278}{67358}I can't keep people|from the street and...
{67361}{67428}...keep them from|bringing their mouths,
{67433}{67487}And not leaving their lips at home,
{67496}{67569}Such a shame,|they're so beautiful...
{67582}{67656}...but wasps like|to settle on them,
{67738}{67794}What kind of wasp|has stung you?
{67808}{67925}A sin, so thick and broad,|It stinks so badly...
{67932}{68038}...you could smoke out the|little angels from heaven,
{68155}{68234}You have a red mouth, Marie...
{68256}{68299}...and no blister on it,
{68302}{68365}- Franz, you are talking in a fever!|- I saw him,
{68368}{68457}Two good eyes see|a lot in sunshine,
{68460}{68533}Did he stand there?|Like this? Like this?
{68536}{68589}As the world is...
{68592}{68657}...many people can|stand in one place,
{68660}{68684}Dare touch me, Franz!
{68686}{68761}I'd rather have a knife in my|body than your hand on mine,
{69098}{69128}No...
{69204}{69275}...something must be on her,
{69300}{69359}Something should be on her,
{69399}{69466}Every human being is an abyss,
{69494}{69564}You get dizzy, looking down,
{69618}{69694}Innocence, you have|a sign on you,
{69735}{69826}Do I know it? Do I know it?
{70122}{70203}I didn't know him, privately,|so to speak...
{70207}{70414}... but the little that was revealed|during shooting was very
friendly.
{70426}{70589}On the last day of shooting,|we took a group photo of the team.
{70602}{70705}- I was sad that shooting was over.|- Yes, you cried.
{70712}{70805}I left early, because l|couldn't keep from sobbing.
{70813}{70894}All of a sudden, I heard steps|behind me and someone said:
{70898}{70942}"Wait a moment".|It was Kinski.
{70947}{70993}He took me in|his arms, and he said:
{70998}{71058}"Eva, I know exactly how you feel."
{71064}{71142}That was so wonderful.|It did me a lot of good.
{71148}{71219}I really needed that,|and he was there.
{71225}{71299}He went to the hotel with me,|holding me the entire time...
{71303}{71348}...and he simply knew.
{71354}{71542}When I got to Cannes, I received,|I guess erroneously...
{71547}{71602}No, you deserved it!
{71606}{71748}...this prize. I received it and not|Klaus. I went to him and said:
{71755}{71829}"Well, what do you think|about my getting this prize?"
{71842}{71955}And he said: "Eva, I think only|of that walk we took together...
{71962}{72055}...from the location to the hotel,|when you cried so."
{72068}{72213}That was great. He was sitting|in the audience, applauding me...
{72222}{72377}...and he said: "Finally you're|wearing a gorgeous dress!"
{72389}{72533}I had told him beforehand.|If they do give a prize...
{72536}{72641}...it would have to be a joint one,|for him, as well. And he said:
{72648}{72794}"l don't care about that scum!|Why should I receive a prize?
{72799}{72867}I know that I'm a genius!
{72872}{72927}And on and on.|I said: "We all know that.
{72935}{73078}You never need to get a prize.|It just compromises you...
{73090}{73207}...and drags you to the same level|of the media, this whole circus."
{73215}{73329}That did him a lot of good.|He was very loving with me then.
{73342}{73460}He kissed me on the mouth and|held me for a long time...
{73470}{73545}...and was all broken up and|very deeply touched.
{73555}{73638}There were quite a few|moments like that between us.
{73654}{73874}It's always difficult to explain that|he also had great human
warmth...
{73878}{74148}...which abruptly could turn into|rage of unimaginable proportions.
{74162}{74272}You won't tell me whether l|can scream or not!
{74275}{74372}You can lick my ass.|I'm going to smack your face.
{74376}{74446}You can count on it!
{74454}{74523}I'll kick your ass if you mouth off|to me! -Come on!
{74750}{74812}This quarrel, here,|filmed as an aside...
{74828}{74913}...was with our capable production|manager, Walter Saxer.
{74919}{74992}By some rare chance, I was|not the brunt of it this time.
{74994}{75083}I don't give a shit about your|jerking off with your friendship!
{75112}{75168}Go on making your shit!
{75182}{75310}The cause was trivial, and I didn't|bother to interfere, because
Kinski...
{75315}{75393}...compared with his previous|outbreaks seemed rather mild.
{75444}{75560}I simply continued setting up|for the next scene.
{75562}{75634}- Fine, you won't get anymore.|- Pigs' slops, that's what it is!
{75636}{75697}- You don't have to eat it.|- What, you fucking idiot?
{75699}{75785}Eat what you want.
{75788}{75859}It's worse than in a prison,|you asshole!
{75862}{75944}- You want to tell me what to eat?|- Then no food for you
{75975}{76052}He's a madman, Lucki.
{76054}{76113}Take this piece of shit away!
{76130}{76205}You can eat your own shit!
{76208}{76262}A lunatic!|He belongs in an asylum!
{76265}{76358}A madman! He's mad,|he's an idiot.
{76385}{76466}Somebody needs to hit you in|the face. You should be locked up.
{76601}{76658}I'm not finished with you,|yet, you stupid pig!
{76670}{76770}How can you let such an asshole|run your production?
{76855}{76890}You don't exist for me!
{76893}{76983}You better behave like|a human being around here.
{76986}{77069}This is outrageous.
{77120}{77218}Come on, lick my ass, man!|We're making a movie!
{77221}{77318}And we'll put you in your place|where you belong, you idiot!
{77320}{77363}Shut up!
{77371}{77413}You bother me!
{77416}{77561}These ravings were frightening and|a real problem for the Indians...
{77575}{77687}...who solve their conflicts|in a totally different manner.
{77701}{77819}You are so stupid that you are|not aware of the consequences...
{77848}{77898}I don't give a shit|about the consequences.
{77914}{77972}I know! You don't fucking|care about anything!
{78022}{78075}In any case, I don't care|about your tantrums.
{78137}{78209}Nobody can live on this pig food.
{78214}{78272}Nobody can be so stupid!
{78333}{78404}Then don't eat it.
{78419}{78563}Do you understand! I'm leaving!|This is outrageous!
{78570}{78678}- Come on, let's leave it.|- Then tell him to shut his face.
{78695}{78798}Come on, just leave it alone, you|two, Walter, you and Klaus.
{79022}{79153}One of you ought to have the nerve|to stop this. OK, let's start
shooting.
{79185}{79290}We need some preparation,|I would like to rehearse again.
{79298}{79463}Klaus, I'd like to show|you what I have in mind.
{79728}{79921}Kinski's raving fits strained|things with our Indian extras.
{79931}{80051}They were Machiguengas, these|two here, and a lot of Campas, too.
{80059}{80242}Normally, they speak very softly|and physical contacts are gentle.
{80260}{80417}They were afraid. They would sit|huddled together, whispering.
{80791}{80886}Towards the end of shooting one|of the chiefs came to me and said:
{80903}{81036}"You probably realized that we were|afraid, but not for one moment...
{81042}{81126}...were we scared of that screaming|madman, shouting his head off."
{81138}{81223}They were actually afraid of me,|because I was so quiet.
{81229}{81520}Kinski's fits can partly be explained|by his egocentric character.
{81537}{81669}Egocentric is perhaps not the right|word; he was an outright
egomaniac.
{81677}{81804}Whenever there was a serious|accident, it became a big problem...
{81814}{81876}...because, all of a sudden, he was|no longer the centre of
attention.
{81878}{81926}He was no longer important.
{81935}{82108}Once, a lumberman was bitten|by a snake while cutting a tree.
{82125}{82226}This only happened once in 3 years,|with hundreds of woodcutters...
{82233}{82312}...in the jungle who always worked|barefoot with their chain saws.
{82318}{82478}The snakes naturally flee from the|smell of gasoline and the noise.
{82487}{82602}Suddenly this chuchupe|struck the man twice.
{82626}{82697}This was the most|dangerous snake of all.
{82706}{82850}It only takes a few minutes|before cardiac arrest occurs.
{82862}{82994}He dropped the saw and thought|about it for five seconds...
{83005}{83185}...then he grabbed the saw|again and cut off his foot.
{83200}{83360}It saved his life, because the camp|and serum was 20 minutes away.
{83385}{83482}When that happened, I knew|Kinski would start raving...
{83491}{83664}...with some trifling excuse, because|now he was just a marginal
figure.
{83666}{83812}In another incident, a plane crashed,|which was bringing 6 people
here.
{83818}{83933}Luckily, they all survived, but|some were seriously injured.
{83939}{84066}There were confusing reports|on the radio, completely garbled...
{84083}{84142}...and Kinski saw that he was|no longer in demand.
{84151}{84253}So, he threw a fit, because his coffee|was only lukewarm that
morning.
{84262}{84395}For hours he screamed at me,|that close to my face. Incredible.
{84405}{84501}I didn't know how to calm him|down, and then I had an inspiration.
{84509}{84650}I went to my hut, where, for months|I had hidden a piece of
chocolate.
{84660}{84733}We would almost have killed one|another for something like that.
{84739}{84854}I went back to him, going right into|his face and ate the chocolate.
{84861}{84944}All of a sudden he was quiet.|This was utterly beyond him.
{84959}{85124}Towards the end of shooting, the|Indians offered to kill Kinski for
me.
{85128}{85181}They said:|"Shall we kill him for you?"
{85188}{85289}And I said: "No, for God's sake!|I still need him for shooting.
{85296}{85358}Leave him to me!"
{85366}{85431}I declined, at the time, but|they were dead serious.
{85441}{85533}They would have killed him,|undoubtedly, if I had wanted it.
{85537}{85685}I at once regretted that I held the|Indians back from their purpose.
{85697}{85840}The proposal to do away with|Kinski came from this Chief.
{85994}{86197}The rage the Indians felt toward|Kinski was exploited for this scene.
{86526}{86664}Kinski maintained that he felt close|to the Indians, but this wasn't
true.
{86671}{86798}He wanted to pretend that he|was close to 'Nature's Children'...
{86804}{86920}...and thus to 'Mother Nature'.
{87030}{87139}Between Kinski and me there|was an unbridgeable gap.
{87158}{87206}This had to do with his|feeling for nature.
{87213}{87296}He stylised himself as|the 'Natural Man'.
{87304}{87445}I believe that everything he said|about the jungle was mainly posing.
{87451}{87589}He declared everything around here|erotic, but he never went near it.
{87591}{87761}He stayed in a camp for months,|but never set foot in the jungle.
{87774}{87925}Once he penetrated it for about|100 feet, where a fallen tree lay.
{87932}{88012}Of course, the photographer|had to go with him...
{88017}{88110}...taking hundreds of photos of|him tenderly embracing...
{88119}{88229}...and copulating with this tree.
{88244}{88379}Poses and paraphernalia were|what mattered to him.
{88385}{88494}His alpine gear was more important|than the mountains themselves.
{88500}{88601}His camouflage combat fatigues|tailored by Yves Saint Laurent...
{88604}{88675}...were much more important|than any jungle.
{88683}{88874}In this regard, Kinski was endowed|with a fair share of natural
stupidity.
{88935}{89081}The difference in our views became|most apparent during
"Fitzcarraldo".
{91622}{91729}Strangely enough, we reached|some kind of tacit understanding...
{91734}{91821}...which even extended|to his ravings.
{91832}{92075}Sometimes he had an awareness|that he needed to produce a fit.
{92082}{92234}I often provoked him, making a|remark so that he would explode.
{92247}{92338}I knew he would then continue|screaming for one and a half hours.
{92344}{92441}White foam would appear at the|corners of his mouth...
{92452}{92493}...until he had emptied himself out.
{92502}{92672}At such moments Aguirre's|madness would break through.
{92681}{92809}I knew there had to be a very|quiet, very dangerous tone now.
{92826}{92971}Kinski saw it differently.|He wanted Aguirre to start raving...
{92978}{93068}...declaring himself to be the|great traitor and Wrath of God.
{93076}{93194}Deep down, he did understand me,|and hoped I would provoke him...
{93199}{93287}...so he would throw|his tantrum first...
{93290}{93380}...and then we could|shoot the scene.
{93383}{93489}I am the great traitor,|There must be no other!
{93541}{93665}Anyone, even thinking about|deserting, will be cut into 198 pieces!
{93694}{93832}And then trampled upon until what is|left can only be used to paint
walls,
{93973}{94039}Whoever takes one grain of corn...
{94042}{94101}...and one drop of water|more than his ration...
{94136}{94237}...will be locked up for 155 years,
{94374}{94481}If I, Aguirre, want the birds|to drop dead from the trees...
{94484}{94569}...the birds will drop dead|from the trees,
{94666}{94720}I am the Wrath of God,
{94755}{94840}The earth I pass will|see me and tremble,
{94974}{95097}Who follows me and the|river will win untold riches,
{95314}{95373}But whoever deserts...
{95831}{95926}Kinski sometimes seriously|believed that I was mad.
{95955}{96085}This isn't true of course. I am quite|sane, clinically sane, so to
speak.
{96105}{96218}Nevertheless, he might have been|referring to something in
particular.
{96222}{96301}Together we were like two|critical masses...
{96318}{96429}...which result in a dangerous mixture|when they come into contact.
{96436}{96503}Something that became|highly explosive.
{96530}{96658}I was never out of my senses,|but perhaps just very angry.
{96666}{96854}One day I seriously planned to|firebomb him in his house.
{96860}{97026}This was prevented only by the|vigilance of his Alsatian shepherd.
{97047}{97209}But although we kept our distance,|we'd seek out one another again...
{97212}{97243}...at the right time.
{97551}{97643}We met at the Telluride Film|Festival in Colorado.
{97649}{97740}At that time we had already|made three films together.
{97751}{97802}We hadn't seen each|other for some time...
{97812}{97859}...and were looking forward|to our meeting...
{97864}{97970}...although I had just shortly before|given up my plan to murder him.
{100637}{100720}Nosferatu -Phantom of the Night
{101754}{101841}You must excuse|my rude entrance,
{101851}{101913}I am Count Dracula,
{101953}{102005}I know of you,
{102019}{102106}I have read Jonathan's diary,
{102133}{102224}Since he has been|with you, he's ruined,
{102231}{102301}- He will not die,|- Yes, he will,
{102361}{102502}Dying is cruelty for the unsuspecting,|but death is not everything,
{102530}{102630}It is more cruel|not to be able to die,
{102635}{102761}I wish I could partake of the love|that's between you and Jonathan,
{102810}{102941}Nothing in this world, not|even God, can touch that,
{102968}{103072}It will not change, even if Jonathan|never recognises me again,
{103082}{103224}I could change everything,|Come to me and be my ally...
{103233}{103345}...there'd be salvation for|your husband and for me,
{103380}{103463}The absence of love...
{103481}{103560}...is the most abject pain,
{103603}{103683}Salvation comes from|ourselves alone,
{103732}{103783}And you may rest assured...
{103806}{103918}...that even the unthinkable|will not deter me,
{104154}{104269}Every gray hair on my|head I call Kinski.
{104467}{104602}Yes, I miss him.|Now and then I do miss him.
{104610}{104737}There are moments, when|he is very much alive for me.
{104751}{104885}He created a climate of|unconditional professionalism.
{104890}{105033}He used to complain about the|lighting and demanded changes.
{105039}{105224}I can remember that vividly, when|shooting at the post office in
Iquitos.
{105230}{105393}Something wasn't quite as it should|be and he asked for a mirror.
{105395}{105462}And as always, he was right.
{105470}{105609}He never maintained something|was wrong, when it wasn't.
{105613}{105700}He sensed with|25 people on the set...
{105703}{105799}...when somebody in the back|was whispering.
{105803}{105845}Yes, the raving fit would|follow without fail.
{105857}{105995}It was almost an animal|presence that he had.
{106007}{106139}I learned something special from|him, from his physicality.
{106146}{106231}I later called it the Kinski spiral...
{106238}{106277}...meaning an appearance|from behind the camera.
{106286}{106355}If you enter the scene from the|side, showing your profile...
{106364}{106466}...and then face the camera,|there is no tension.
{106470}{106520}He developed something.
{106530}{106656}Standing next to the tripod, he|would twist his leg around...
{106666}{106792}...and this way his body had to spiral|itself organically into the
picture.
{106798}{106921}If you were the camera, he would|position himself right next to
it...
{106930}{107010}...and twist into frame.
{107014}{107114}This created a mysterious,|disturbing tension.
{107584}{107641}Come and play|something for the men,
{108034}{108132}He did spiral just like that, I can|remember, up on that
platform...
{108142}{108214}...when we were filming|simultaneously from a helicopter.
{108250}{108407}He did it up on that platform,|and that was very dangerous...
{108448}{108540}...because it was well over|120 feet up in the treetops.
{108545}{108702}Everything was swaying and|they hoisted us up there.
{110302}{110361}I can hardly believe it,
{110375}{110449}There is the Ucayali,
{110486}{110571}All the river above the|Pongo das Mortes belongs to us,
{110574}{110663}I knew it, we're going|to build a railway tunnel,
{110666}{110695}No,
{110726}{110795}We're going to drag that|ship over the mountain,
{110798}{110862}And the bare-asses|are going to help us.
{110866}{110925}How the hell are|we going to do this?
{110927}{110985}Just like the cow|jumped over the moon,
{111006}{111080}We often understood one|another without words...
{111084}{111154}...almost like animals.
{111163}{111365}And the closeness became such|that we almost changed roles.
{111372}{111449}When we started Jason|Robards was Fitzcarraldo...
{111454}{111533}...and Mick Jagger|played his sidekick.
{111538}{111624}Jason became so ill that we had|to fly him out to the United
States.
{111637}{111708}And the doctors wouldn't|permit him to return.
{113621}{113751}This church remains closed|till this town has its opera house,
{113850}{113898}I want the opera house,
{113925}{113972}I want my opera house!
{114004}{114065}I want to have an opera!
{114103}{114218}The church remains closed|until this town has an opera!
{114251}{114319}I will build my opera house!
{114338}{114402}I will build an opera!
{114411}{114456}I want to have an opera!
{114909}{115136}I knew, if I didn't get him, I'd have|to change body and role with
him.
{115143}{115353}I thank God on my knees that l|didn't have to and that Kinski did
it.
{115360}{115467}We had a blessed one|working there, and I am truly glad.
{115485}{115592}I met him in New York|and he was just great.
{115598}{115731}I was devastated, and he opened|a bottle of champagne and said:
{115742}{115834}"l knew it, Werner, I knew|I would be Fitzcarraldo.
{115838}{115908}I am Fitzcarraldo and|you're not going to be him...
{115912}{115958}...because I'm much better|than you.
{115962}{116017}Of course he was right.
{116025}{116132}But when I brought him to this site,|he saw how steep the terrain
was.
{116139}{116279}His heart sank, and he thought, for|God's sake, this can't be done.
{116283}{116339}He saw it at once.
{116342}{116452}Our task was, to heave an|Amazon steamboat bit by bit...
{116462}{116517}...across that thing there.
{116522}{116588}Do you see that red cliff there?
{116590}{116626}Yes, I see it,
{116639}{116685}That must be it!
{116694}{116830}Good, We can't go much further,|or we'll run into a sandbank,
{116857}{116918}That slope may look insignificant...
{116921}{116974}...but it's going to be my destiny,
{117005}{117218}Strangely enough, he later became|the strongest negative force...
{117234}{117325}...which worked to break up the|project or at least change it.
{117354}{117457}When the river was swollen|and I was sitting in my hut...
{117467}{117570}...gazing at the river, which kept|rising and rising, all day long.
{117588}{117723}Suddenly there was a delegation,|which had been sent by Kinski.
{117730}{117793}They arrived with tea and said:
{117803}{117953}"Let's be calm now. Let's think|about what we can do now."
{117960}{118055}I said: "What do you mean? I am|the only one who is calm here."
{118070}{118210}Kinski wanted to protect me|from my own madness.
{118239}{118382}It was clear that Kinski, the strongest|force, had now also
abandoned me.
{118386}{118630}Everyone had left me and the|loneliness for weeks was difficult.
{118642}{118762}There was nobody on my side, any|longer, who believed in the film.
{118773}{118872}Nobody. Not a single one.
{118893}{119096}Only when the boat started to|move, which was an incredible...
{119102}{119278}...mechanical, kinetic effort, Kinski|saw a chance to put
enthusiasm...
{119294}{119383}...and energy into the story.
{119494}{119565}Although I felt a certain|disappointment...
{119569}{119669}...that he didn't fully participate until|this point, I held on to
one thing.
{119674}{119792}With all the films we did together:|the only thing that counted
was...
{119801}{119904}...what you would see|on the screen.
{120184}{120231}Pull harder!
{120366}{120425}I can't believe it...it works,
{120437}{120544}- It is moving, It is moving!|- It is moving!
{120826}{120857}Watch out!
{123825}{123898}For a really big boat my|money won't be enough,
{123910}{123968}You'll make it,
{127137}{127205}This here, I remember very well...
{127212}{127329}...a photo you took which served|as a model for a painting.
{127334}{127467}This was the moment when he|saw the painting for the first time.
{127477}{127569}You can see how we had|relaxed moments with one another.
{127581}{127656}But his mood changed|completely here.
{127666}{127757}Suddenly something in the|picture didn't suit him anymore...
{127766}{127839}...and he exploded and|started screaming like a berserk.
{127847}{127890}Yes, that happened from|one second to the next.
{127895}{128005}He had this capacity for becoming|a totally different person.
{128018}{128160}This polarity that manifested|itself again and again.
{128223}{128301}This became our poster.
{128307}{128414}Nobody believed, at first, that we|heaved the boat across the
mountain.
{128418}{128513}You have furnished the proof|and the movie does it as well.
{128518}{128641}Yes, here's the evidence in|black and white, and on paper.
{128645}{128746}It is a great metaphor -|for what, I don't know to this day...
{128755}{128821}...but I know it's a great metaphor.
{128836}{128900}Here, 'Cobra Verde', the end.
{128915}{129025}This is where you show Kinski|how to walk in this scene.
{129040}{129118}In front of this crippled man, yes.
{129134}{129288}He had polio as a child and|you cast him in the film.
{129316}{129418}You used to act things out|for Klaus, beautifully.
{129421}{129560}We often changed parts. I could|have played this role as well.
{129567}{129631}You would have also been|a good Fitzcarraldo.
{129633}{129709}That's what you are, in reality.
{129714}{129757}I truly like this very much. It|happened because...
{129759}{129864}...he must have sensed the|presence of your camera.
{129874}{129963}He also just wanted to|let you have it, didn't he?
{130072}{130317}There you are, directing the army|of 800 women, Amazon warriors.
{130323}{130450}Yes, like a shepherd dog, as usual|without megaphone or
loudspeaker.
{130458}{130502}Always running.
{130514}{130585}Kinski was very physical|too, but differently.
{130594}{130681}He drew everyone and l|held them together.
{130697}{130842}That's what you do and you|have done it with bravado.
{130847}{130938}We complemented each other well,|because I kept the herd
together...
{130943}{130998}...and he attracted it magnetically.
{131008}{131101}You can see it in this picture here.
{131141}{131264}This is him as the leader of the|rebellion against the King...
{131272}{131387}...with this incredible, crazed|energy he possessed.
{131438}{131501}They have taken the sacred|python from the temple,
{131503}{131575}We must turn back,|Nobody gets past it alive!
{131578}{131647}Nonsense, In my country,|I was a snake myself,
{131650}{131678}Out of my way!
{132326}{132417}Seize him!
{132434}{132518}Stay back, His wives|will strangle him, now,
{132705}{132808}This scene, where slave trader|Cobra Verde tries to flee and
dies...
{132813}{132929}...was the last day of shooting|that we had together.
{132947}{133015}Kinski was completely|beyond control.
{133024}{133144}He already identified himself with the|role in his own project,
'Paganini'...
{133152}{133252}...and brought with him into my|film an unpleasant climate...
{133255}{133351}...something offensive that|was alien to me.
{133383}{133506}Kinski had insisted for years that|I should direct 'Paganini'...
{133517}{133640}...but I always declined because l|considered his script
unfilmable.
{133647}{133743}He finally made the film alone.
{133756}{133851}I didn't want to continue|our collaboration.
{133857}{133916}We parted ways.
{133924}{134073}In 1991 he died in his home,|north of San Francisco.
{134078}{134194}He had spent himself. It was as|if he had burnt himself out.
{134334}{134409}He had put so much intensity|into this scene...
{134414}{134562}...that from this alone|he had emptied himself out.
{134566}{134657}This should have been filmed|at the start of shooting.
{134671}{134820}In any case, he had spent himself.|He burned away like a comet.
{134827}{134915}Afterwards he was ashes.
{134937}{135037}This is what I sensed, and he|himself said something similar.
{135044}{135098}He said: "We can go no further.
{135105}{135173}I am no more."
{137540}{137624}Sometimes I want to put|my arm around him again...
{137630}{137778}...but I guess I only dream of this|because I've seen it in old
footage.
{137799}{137872}We are friends,|we joke with one another...
{137875}{137940}...as if it had always been that way.
{138371}{138429}And yet we belonged together.
{138433}{138509}We were ready to|go down together.
{138531}{138622}I see us back in the|jungle, together in a boat.
{138628}{138681}The whole world belongs to us.
{138686}{138792}But Klaus seems|to want to fly away.
{138795}{138953}Shouldn't I have noticed, that it was|his soul that wanted to
flutter away?
{139017}{139124}Then I see him with a|butterfly, softly, delicately.
{139140}{139200}The little creature doesn't want|to leave him, and is so
unafraid...
{139208}{139343}...sometimes it seems to me that|Klaus himself turns into a
butterfly.
{139354}{139464}Everything that|weighed on us is gone.
{139489}{139557}And even though my|mind revolts against it...
{139564}{139622}...something deep|inside tells me...
{139629}{139721}...this is the way I'd like to keep|him in my memory.
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