Ultime parole (1968)
Last Words
Director/Scenario/Screenplay: Werner Herzog - Director of photography: Thomas Mauch – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Sound: Herbert Prasch - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany - Running time: 13’
The film:
“The inhabitants of a Greek Island take turn on the screen repeating the story of the old man who, taken away by force from Spinalonga, the island of the leprouses, refuses to talk and goes out, only by night, playing the lira.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 291]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Last Words 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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