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In a film, one of these two people recalls how after he watched a man sever his own foot with a chainsaw, he couldn’t help thinking about how the other would react. One of these two people once savored a fancy Toblerone while staring at hardened froth around the lips of the other, who was complaining about cold coffee. One of Beat Presser’s photographs of these two people depicts one of them smiling as he pulls a fake sword away from his throat. One of these two people plays with a butterfly at the end of a film in which footage of them smiling at Telluride is shown while the other (*) narrates, “I had only decided shortly before this not to murder” the former. (10[1])In the documentary My Best Fiend, one of these two people recalls (10[1])declining an offer by the chief of the Machiguenga tribe to kill the other after they finished transporting a boat. (10[1])For 10 points, name these two Germans who wreaked havoc along the Amazon for the films Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo. ■END■

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