The original score contained unrelease music by Popol Vuh, not from the albums Die Nacht der Seele (1979) and Sei still, wisse ich bin (1981), performances by Enrico Caruso, and others. The film instead used excerpts from the operas: Verdi’s Ernani, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (“Ridi, Pagliaccio”), Puccini’s La bohème, Bellini’s I puritani, and from Richard Strauss’ orchestral work Death and Transfiguration.