Ballata di Stroszek, La (1976)
Stroszek
Director/Scenario/Screenplay: Werner Herzog - Director of photography: Thomas Mauch – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Production design: Henning von Gierke – Sound: Haymo Henry Heyder – Music: Chet Atkins, Sonny Terry, Tom Paxton, Ludwig van Beethoven – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 108’
Cast: Bruno S. (Stroszek), Eva Mattes (Eva), Clemens Scheitz (Scheitz), Wilhelm von Homburg, Burkhard Driest, Pitt Bedewitz, Clayton Szlapinski (Mechanic), Ely Rodriguez (Indian), Alfred Edel (Jail Headmaster), Scott McKain, Ralph Wade (Auctioneer), Vaclav Vijta (Doctor), Michael Gahr, Yücsel Topcugürler (prisoners)
The film:
“Sometimes, the words serve to measure the distance between us and the world, when the world has imposed risky distances. In Stroszeck, the protagonist gives us the most evident example of how he expresses himself and put himself in the space. […] In the cinema of Herzog, the perception of objects and phenomenon is subjected to a sort of reversal of the rules. The point of view is the one of a glance which wants to dig in the deep to discover how certain people perceive/see/feel the things.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 87]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Stroszek 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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