Cuore di vetro (1976)
Heart of Glass
Director: Werner Herzog – Screenplay: Herbert Achternbusch, Werner Herzog – Scenario: Die Stunde des Todes (Herbert Achternbusch, 1975) – Director of photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Costume: Gisela Storch – Sound: Haymo Henry Heyder, Peter van Anft – Production design: Henning von Gierke, Cornelius Siegel – Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh), Studio der Frühen Musik - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 97’
Interpreti: Josef Bierbichler (Hias), Stefan Güttler (glasshouse owner), Clemens Scheitz (Adalbert), Volker Prechtel (Wudy), Sonja Skiba (Ludmilla), Brunhilde Klockner (Paulin), Wolf Albrecht (Sam)
The film:
“The landscape represents, in many films, a place where the man recognizes himself, a totally visionary refuge, like to find oneself in front of a mirror and to regain the memory and the knowledge. This happens to Hias, the clairvoyant in Heart of Glass, who finds his visionary contest in the wood and, in turn, to the men of his “dream”, those who scan the horizon to find the borders of the world.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 108]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Heart of Glass 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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