Futuro impedito (1971)
Handicapped Future
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Scenario: Werner Herzog, Hans Peter Meier (idea) – Director of photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 43’
Cast: Rolf Illing (voice off)
The film:
“At that time, the treatment reserved to the disabled people was medieval. For example, in Germany there were very few reserved elevators in the public areas, or sidewalks that could be used by the wheelchairs. It is probably one of my most directly political film, I wanted to explore the development of the legislation in support of the invalidity developed in the United States and then passed to Germany and to all the European countries. The film contributed to a greater awareness on this topic in Germany. I don’t know If I like the film, If you see it now it will look dangerously conventional. If I made it now I’d be much harder.”
[Werner Herzog]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Handicapped Future 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.
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