so when you look at that are you are you experiencing PTSD you know from what you
went through together you did that you actually did that in a way yes but there were many others
who worked on it but the basic idea how to move an object as heavy a set comes from me with
these turnstiles and winches and things it's very strange because only a few years ago I discovered
in the archives of the Vatican because I was interested in obelisks how the obelisk in Saint
Peter's Square was erected and I find all of a sudden in 1560 the same system with trans tiles
many more than that and pushed around by horses and I I was really it really angered me because
I had the feeling they stole the idea for me so so you what you went through on this movie was
so dramatic that the less blank actually made a documentary about it burden of dreams how did
it feel to have that documentary made about it less really wanted to come there and the Trop
the problem is that he was there only for very short periods of time ten days and then another
15 or 20 days and he captured only a very small portion of what was going on the film is very
good actually it's very much a film on its own and a kind of Miss Liz Blanc he was such
a wonderful filmmaker and a friend however the film has done a lot of damage to me because in
one moment on camera I am saying to the camera I should rather stop what I'm doing and then I say
a toxic sentence even people lost their lives and then he cuts in with the next breath I'm
explaining that we had our field hospital and an old woman out of 1,400 cases that we treated
for free an old woman died from anemia and didn't can express I am saying that two young men stole
one of our dugout canoes capsized in one of them drowned we couldn't find him so and for a whole
decade for a whole decade I was a man who for the sake of the film and nothing else jeopardizes the
lives of people and pushes him over the brink so that that was a major major mistake and I told
les when he showed me the film shouldn't you include this oh no everybody will understand
and so and I I didn't interfere because I had the feeling him he knows his audience and he
knows what he's doing and as a consequence I mean this kind of dark shadow is still somehow
very distantly lingering upon me which I have to accept it is as it is it's perception that
that counts and not what actually happened it's always perception and what can I say I even had
to face a public tribunal in Germany things like that so it's because of that film yes
but I thought to myself and and ever there were crazy accusations that I had committed
human rights abuses against native people and I said who name the names and I even forced embassy
international Co they have enquire they looked into it and there was nothing about it and they
reported but the press wouldn't report it then which came five months five months later it is
how the media are functioning no no definitely the myth has become bigger than the reality