Ballata del piccolo soldato, La (1984)
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Jorge Vignati – Film editor: Maximiliane Mainka – Sound: Christine Ebenberger – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 46’
The film:
“In February 1984 Herzog joined the French journalist Denis Reichle in Nicaragua to plunge into the life and fight conditions of the misquitos tribe, who live on the right side of Rio Coco river, engaged, at that time, in a bloody battle against the Sandinists. Herzog and Reichle’s attention is especially focused on the child soldiers, trained to the war since the age of nine and employed as real soldiers in battle.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 298-299]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Ballad of the Little Soldier 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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