Fitzcarraldo

I had seen Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo as a teenager and had this fascination for Herzog. I love him, and I think he’s one of the greatest directors of all time, and those films are part of the landscape of the jungle in cinema. Apocalypse Now also. So I think for me, it was more like, I had a great respect for what he had done. But at the same time, I knew it wasn’t the way I wanted to approach the jungle. I wanted to approach it from the perspective of the indigenous, not from t