Rintocchi dal profondo (1993)
Bells From the Deep
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein – Film editor: Rainer Standke – Sound: Vyacheslav Belozerov - Music: Coro dell’Accademia Spirituale di San Pietroburgo, Coro del Monastero di Zargorsk, Coro del Convento Dormitorio di Pühtitsa – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germania – Running time: 60’
The film:
“The peregrines of Bells From the Deep try to see the traces of Kither, the underwater city. According to a legend, the inhabitants of this city, systematically invaded and razed to the ground by the Tatars and the Huns, invoked the help of God. He sent then the archangel to move the city to the bottom of the lake, where the people finally achieved serenity, singing hymns and ringing the bells. During the winter, though, when the lake is covered with a thin layer of ice, it is possible to slide on its surface and try to discover in the depth the traces of that antique legend, the proofs of the underwater city. […] A poetic metaphor of the cinema which needs poetry to catch the more real aspect of the reality, he one seen through a layer of ice and, even more, the one seen when watching someone who tries to watch.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 110]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Bells From the Deep was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original Super16 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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