Provvedimenti contro i fanatici (1969)
Precautions Against Fanatics
Director/Scenario/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Dieter Lohmann – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 12’
Cast: Petar Radenkovic, Mario Adorf, Hans Tiedemann, Herbert Hisel, Peter Schamoni
The film:
“The film shows a series of interviews to people who say that they have to protect the horses from the fanatics. It’s the mechanism of the television inquiry, with the characters who look directly to the camera.”
[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 Precautions Against Fanatics 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.
© Werner Herzog Film
|
