Ercole (1962)
Herakles
Director/Scenario/Screenplay/Film editor: Werner Herzog - Director of photography: Jaime Pacheco - Sound editor: Uwe Brandner - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany - Running time: 12’
Cast: Reinhard Lichtenberg (Mr. Germany 1962)
The film:
"A montage of disparate materials: original shootings of bodybuilders (among them there is also Mr. Germany champion) exhibiting their muscles, archive materials, a car accident during a motor racing, images of a city destroyed by an earthquake, the work inside a garbage dump."
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 290]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Herakles – Werner Herzog's very first film at the age of 20 - was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original 16 mm negatives conserved by Werner Herzog Film Archive.
The preservation of the film is part of a project to valorize the works by Werner Herzog, including the homage Signs of life. Tribute to Werner Herzog organized by Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 2008.
The event showed the complete retrospective, the photography exhibition, a concert and a workshop and it was realized together with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Scuola Holden, the Teatro Regio of Torino, the Werner Herzog Film and the German Film.
The preservation was carried out in 2007 at the laboratories ARRI and Geyer.
© Werner Herzog Film
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