Anche i nani hanno cominciato da piccoli (1970)
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Director/Scenario/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Thomas Mauch – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Sound: Herbert Prasch - Music: Florian Fricke – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion - Country:Germany – Running time: 96’
Cast: Helmut Döring (Hombre), Gerd Gickel (Pepe), Paul Glauer (Erzieher), Erna Gschwendtner (Azucar), Gisela Hertwig (Pobrecita), Gerhard März (Territory), Hertel Minkner (Chicklets), Alfredo Piccini (Anselmo), Gertraud Piccini (Piccini), Brigitte Saar (Cochina), Marianne Saar (Theresa), Erna Smolarz (Schweppes), Lajos Zsarnoczay (Chaparro)
The film:
“A dwarf sits on a chair with a recognition badge in his hands in an austere room of the police station. He is photographed and interviewed with regard to the violence committed during a revolt. The film turns the clocks back, when the dwarfs detained in the institution take advantage of the absence of the director to rise. The scene is distressing and sinister, increasingly surreal episodes happen one after another, where the dwarfs indulge in acts of vandalism and gratuitous cruelty on objects and persons, in a crescendo increasingly frenetic and hallucinated.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 292]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Even Dwarfs Started Small 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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