Grido di pietra (1991)
Scream of Stone
Director/Scenario: Werner Herzog – Screenplay: Hans-Ulrich Klenner, Walter Saxer, Robert Geoffrion – Director of photography: Rainer Klausmann – Film editor: Suzanne Baron – Sound: Manfred Arbter, Christopher Price – Production design: Kristine Steinhilber, Cornelius Siegel, Wolfgang Siegel – Costume: Ann Poppel – Music: Heinrich Schütz, Richard Wagner, Ingram Marshal, Sarah Hopkins, Alan Lamb - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany, France, Canada – Running time: 105’
Cast: Vittorio Mezzogiorno (Roccia), Stefan Glowacz (Martin), Mathilda May (Katharina), Donald Sutherland (Ivan), Brad Dourif (Senzadita), AI Waxman (Stephan), Chavela Vargas, Hans Kammerlander, Volker Prechtl
The film:
“The additional sense in Scream of Stone is the waiting. We can find it in the small details, in the moments apparently without action, as a burning photograph: we watch it while it burns out until the fire goes out. […] Challenging the mountain is a dizzy undertaking, to lose one’s reason, besides the fingers and the name. On the summit of Cerro Torre, the air is so rarefied that it looks like ice, and the landscape has the power to transform the shape of the world. Here there isn’t room for anybody except for an artist or a madman.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 113]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Scream of Stone 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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