Difesa esemplare della Fortezza di Deutschkreutz, La (1966)
Unprecedented Defence of The Fortress Deutschkreutz, The
Director/Scenario/Screenplay/Film editor: Werner Herzog - Director of photography: Jaime Pacheco - Sound: Uwe Brandner - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion - Country: Germania - Running time: 15’
Cast: Peter Brumm, Georg Eska, Karl-Heinz Steffel, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg
The film:
“A satire on the war and the stupid hostilities inspired by the war. Four boys get to an abandoned fortress. Inside they find some military uniforms that they start using in order to stage a strange war play. The senselessness of their gestures stands out above all in relation to the quiet everyday life of the work in the surrounding countryside.”
[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 The Unprecedented Defence of The Fortress Deutschkreutz 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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