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Play Sound - Oh! - It doesn't matter. They'll make another one. No good. It's no good. Look here, kid. This is no good. The Indians agree to make a few bows and arrows for Kinski. They accept his payment of $3.50 an arrow... the equivalent of a full day's wage. To the Indians, who can make 20 arrows in a day... this probably seems like an extreme overpayment... until they have to pay the same 3.50 for a single Polaroid photo... taken by one of the Peruvian workers.
- Oh! - It doesn't matter. They'll make another one. No good. It's no good. Look here, kid. This is no good. The Indians agree to make a few bows and arrows for Kinski. They accept his payment of $3.50 an arrow... the equivalent of a full day's wage. To the Indians, who can make 20 arrows in a day... this probably seems like an extreme overpayment... until they have to pay the same 3.50 for a single Polaroid photo... taken by one of the Peruvian workers.

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Description: A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).

Cast:
Self: Beat Presser
Fitzcarraldo: Jason Robards
Molly: Claudia Cardinale
Wilbur: Mick Jagger
Narrator: Candace Laughlin

Written by: Michael Goodwin

Director: Les Blank

Production: Flower Films, José Koechlin von Stein

Release date: 24 Sep 1982