Grande estasi dell'intagliatore Steiner, La (1973)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Director/Scenario/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Francisco Joán, Frederik Hettich, Alfred Chrosziel, Gideon Meron - Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Sound: Benedikt Kuby – Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh) – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 45’
The film:
“Herzog follows Walter Steiner, the ski jumping champion, for an entire season. Herzog films him during his everyday life as wood carver, when he talks about how the sport arrived to that extreme level of danger, and also during the competitions and the moments of great emotion.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 293]
The film restoration:
The preservation of The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 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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