Soufrière, La (1977)
Director/Scenario/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Sound: Werner Herzog – Music: Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 30’
The film:
“In 1967 scientists found an anomalous activity of the volcano La Soufrière, in the Guadaloupe island, that , by all account, was about to explode and causing a catastrophe. The 75 inhabitants of the southern area of the island were evacuated, but a farmer refused to abandon the mountains. Herzog and his cameramen, attracted by this extreme situation, set off for the volcano to watch the explosion, heralded equal to five or six atomic bomb.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 296]
The film restoration:
The preservation of La Soufrière 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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