Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Christian Brückner: Balthasar

Quotes 

• Balthasar : I was a prince in this land. No one was allowed to look directly into my eyes. But now I'm in chains, like my people, and I must bow my head. Almost everything was taken from us. I can't do anything; I'm powerless. But I am also sorry for you, because I know there is no escape from this jungle.

• Brother Gaspar de Carvajal : Has this heathen heard of our Savior, Jesus Christ and of our mission and the True Word of God? This is a Bible. It contains the Word of God that we are bringing to lighten the darkness of their world. Has he understood that this Book contains the Word of God? Take it in your hand, my son.

  [gives the Bible to the Amazon native who puts it up to his ear] 

  Balthasar : He says it doesn't speak.

• Don Lope de Aguirre : [encountering an Amazon native on a canoe]  What did he say?

  Balthasar : He says he's a jaguar. He knows from his ancestors that one day the sons of the sun would arrive from afar, through great perils. The strangers would come with thunder made with tubes. They've awaited the sons of the sun for a long time for this river God never finished His Creation.