Segni di vita (1968)
Signs of Life
Director/Scenario/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Thomas Mauch – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Sound: Herbert Prasch – Music: Stravros Xarchaskos – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 86’
Cast: Peter Brogle (Stroszek), Wolfgang Reichmann (Meinhard), Athina Zacharopoulou (Nora), Wolfang von Ungern-Sternberg (Becker), Wolfgang Stumpf, Henry van Lyck, Florian Fricke, Heinz Usener, Achmed Hafiz, Julio Pinheiro
The film:
“The German parachutist Stroszek, after being wounded, is sent to a fortress turned into an ammunition dump located in a forgotten island. The man moves there with his wife and two soldiers: Meinhard, a rough and violent character, and Becker, a taciturn intellectual fascinated by the Grecian archeological finds. All the group feels awkward living in a total inactivity, but especially Stroszek feels the effects.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 290-291]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Signs of Life was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original 35 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.
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