American Cinematographer - August 1983 - 66

Mauch

films a scene with Kinski
handheld Arri.

using

a

and

English lettering on them. One

had

on a

shirt with the HOLOCAUST

TV show
course

logo on the front, but, of
he didn't know what the Holo¬

caust meant. What then did these In¬

dians

seem

had to

to know of our culture? I

come

to the conclusion that

they knew nothing but a few details,
but because of their own tempera¬
ment and the abrupt culture shock,
nothing surprised them either. In fact,
I

never

met an

Indian that seemed

surprised or showed surprise about
any technology or situation that they
encountered during the entire shoot.
That surprised me! They had the
same

in

This

was the production's first suc¬
During an earlier attempt to
this picture, Herzog scouted for

ates

suitable location in northern Peru,

tural

cess.

make
a

but the area's Indians made tremen¬
dous demands that the

production
could not afford. Shortly after, the
Peruvian military dictatorship fell, and

Dealing with Indians, we learned, cre¬
problems far beyond those we
usually associate with political or cul¬
reasons.

The loss of their iden¬

tity is increasing. There are also
virtually no more completely isolated
areas

vian

in either the Brazilian

or

Peru¬

jungles for the local Indians to

the local Indians stormed his camp

live in. The first Indians I

and burned down the

production's

medical station. No film

was

relatively "uncivilized," yet many of
them were wearing T-shirts with logos

shot.

saw

looked

low-level enthusiasm for

a

ride

helicopter as they did for a walk in
the jungle.
The project itself was well known to
a

American and German film

com¬

panies. 20th Century-Fox was origi¬
nally interested, but later dropped
out. Lloyds was not willing to insure
the shoot. Finally a group of smaller
British companies formed a pool to
insure us. They, unfortunately, had to
cover a

a

loss which later amounted to

total of $1.5 million dollars. The film

was

finally financed as a co-produc-



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