Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Thomas Mauch – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Sound: Petra Mantoudis, Dagoberto Juarez – Production design: Henning von Gierke – Costume: Gisela Storch – Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh), Richard Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Michel Vuylsteke, Jules Massenet, Giacom Puccini, Vincenzo Bellini, Enrico Caruso - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 137’
Cast: Klaus Kinski (Brian Sweeney “Fitzcarraldo” Fitzgerald), Claudia Cardinale (Molly), José Lewgoy (Don Aquilino), Paul Hittscher (Captain), Huerequeque (Huerequeque), Miguel Ángel Fuentes (Cholo), Rui Polanah (Don Araujo), Milton Nascimento, Bill Rose, Jorge Vignati, Leoncio Bueno, Peter Berling
The film:
“The idea of the ancient world that spread its traces until the present time, sometimes lies in the landscape. We can notice that at the beginning of Fitzcarraldo, when the high-angle shows us the forest in its wild majesty. ‘The indios of the jungle call this land Cayahuary Yaco, the land where God didn’t complete the creation. They think that God will come back to finish his work only after the disappearance of the humans.’ The imperfect and the not finished look like a first sign of the rebellion to God’s perfection, the place where the man can insinuate and hide, invent impossible undertakings and climb over the mountains with a ship.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 62]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Fitzcarraldo 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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