WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:04.000 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 Last Words 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.000 Camera, sound, and editing 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Contribution 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.000 Written, directed, and produced by Werner Herzog 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 They tell me to say no; 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.000 but I don't even say that. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:38.000 That is my last word. 00:00:55.040 --> 00:00:59.320 We fetched him from over there, We saved him... (speak up, jerk). 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:07.240 We fetched him from over there, We saved him... 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:12.320 We fetched him from over there, We saved him... 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:15.880 We fetched him from over there, We saved him... 00:01:16.160 --> 00:01:19.720 We fetched him from over there, We saved him... 00:01:21.720 --> 00:01:26.120 Ever since they brought him here... he doesn't leave his house all day. 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.160 All day. 00:01:30.360 --> 00:01:34.200 In the evening he comes to my bar, sits down and plays the Lyra. 00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:37.720 He sings along, but doesn't talk... 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.720 He doesn't talk, not at all. He just plays and doesn't talk... 00:01:45.720 --> 00:01:48.360 He is the best Lyra player in Crete. 00:01:48.600 --> 00:01:51.440 He plays his Lyra, but he doesn't talk... 00:01:53.240 --> 00:01:56.400 I don't say anything... I don't say anything, I don't talk. 00:01:57.080 --> 00:01:59.600 I don't say anything... I don't talk... 00:01:59.960 --> 00:02:03.000 No, I don't say anything, absolutely nothing I say. 00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:00.160 Frankly, I don't understand what was wrong with him... 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:03.640 The fact is, he must have been eating cactus, tomatoes, thistles... 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:08.240 and lizards, as well, for sure. 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:11.520 Although almost nothing of these lizards was found... 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.960 still when the police officers came to fetch him, 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.840 they found a lot of heads chopped off... 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:21.080 therefore they knew, that he must have been eating lizards. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.560 I picked him up with the boat... sure he's been eating lizards... 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:31.200 I picked him up with the boat... sure he's been eating lizards... 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:35.200 I picked him up with the boat... sure he's been eating lizards... 00:03:36.640 --> 00:03:40.480 Strange, just how he managed to remain all alone on that island there. 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:43.480 Venetians, Saracens, and Turkish went off 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:48.240 and when the lepers were brought away, only he remained on that island. 00:04:00.880 --> 00:04:05.120 When the last lepers were gone, his relatives had him placed under disability... 00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:08.960 and had him taken away with force. 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:13.320 They sent the police officers to have him fetched... 00:04:14.600 --> 00:04:18.480 It was difficult but eventually they brought him over to us... 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.519 to a proper life. 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:32.240 On Spinalonga all the houses used to be half-ruined already back then 00:04:34.400 --> 00:04:37.480 Even the hospital never worked properly. 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:43.920 The only thing still in working order on Spinalonga was an old electricity generator... 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:49.240 they built a hospital but there wasn't even constant water... 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:51.640 but just cisterns. 00:06:51.640 --> 00:06:53.800 Simply no organisation. 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.720 Everybody just came here to die. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.880 And everybody knew they would die in here. 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.280 At this moment, as I stand before this camera... 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.880 this old man might already be dead. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.520 There's a lot of stories like this one. 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:28.000 Good day, how are you? 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:29.920 Good day, how are you? 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:31.840 Good day, how are you? 00:07:31.840 --> 00:07:34.080 Good day, how are you? 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:44.120 (Speak up, jerk) 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.760 We were supposed to say it again. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:55.480 We fetched him from over there, We saved him. 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:05.680 When the last Turkish fled from the island... 00:08:06.760 --> 00:08:10.240 he jumped off a cliff into the sea following the others. 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.520 On that rock he left a foot print. 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.200 And our people built a shrine and a chapel in that place. 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.920 When the last Turkish fled from the island... 00:08:25.960 --> 00:08:29.440 he jumped off a cliff into the sea following the others. 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.760 On that rock he left a foot print. 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:38.440 And our people built a shrine and a chapel in that place. 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:44.080 When the last Turkish fled from the island... 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:48.320 he jumped off a cliff into the sea following the others. 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:52.920 On that rock he left a foot print. 00:08:53.800 --> 00:08:57.640 And our people built a shrine and a chapel in that place. 00:09:01.160 --> 00:09:04.240 When they came to fetch the old man with force... 00:09:04.800 --> 00:09:07.800 he said: What could you possibly do to me... 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:14.240 when I have an entire fleet behind me? 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:23.720 Yet his ships were only carved into the rock. 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:27.680 Such bullshit! 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:32.280 Somehow he wasn't quite alright in his head. 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.160 There is no other explanation. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.440 He used to be all alone, anyway. 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.040 As a physician I have a lot of experience with that. 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.000 For example there used to be this leper... 00:09:47.880 --> 00:09:50.600 he had no legs anymore beginning from here... 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.440 and a woman who had no arms anymore. 00:09:55.560 --> 00:09:57.480 They kept carrying each other around. 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:00.400 Out of pure necessity they were leading a marriage. 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.240 Yet I do have to confirm to you, 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:06.440 that lepers have a distinct sex life. 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.960 One by one the man was losing his fingers, too. 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:12.440 Eventually he only had two left. 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:16.640 His last word was: I'm losing these, too ... then he died. 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:48.760 I don't say anything... 00:11:48.880 --> 00:11:52.720 Absolutely nothing. What am I supposed to tell you? I just don't want to. 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.520 I don't say anything... 00:11:57.520 --> 00:12:00.040 I don't say anything... nothing at all. 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.360 I just don't talk. 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.280 No, I don't say anything... 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:20.040 I'm telling you once more: that is my last word. 00:12:20.560 --> 00:12:23.320 I don't talk, that is my last word. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.240 I don't say anything... 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.200 That is my last word. 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:45.200