Cerro Torre: scream made of stone
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Cerro Torre: scream made of stone |
| Country of production |
Germany France Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Herzog |
| script |
Hans-Ulrich Klenner Walter Saxer Robert Geoffrion |
| production |
Walter Saxer Henri Lange Richard Sadler |
| music | Ingram Marshall Sarah Hopkins Alan Lamb |
| camera | Rainer Klausmann |
| cut | Suzanne Baron |
| occupation | |
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Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein is a 1991 film by director Werner Herzog about a climbing expedition on Cerro Torre . The film was shot on the eponymous mountain in Patagonia .
action
The mountaineer Roccia Innerkofler is preparing for an expedition to Cerro Torre and comments at a sport climbing competition that the athletes in this discipline are never able to manage a mountain of that character. The winner of the race, Martin, accepts the comment as a challenge, and the journalist Ivan, who followed the event, wants to report on it.
Martin finally joins the Roccia expedition to Cerro Torre. In the base camp there, Roccia seems hesitant to tackle the summit and tries to better assess the starting position outside the camp. Martin and a colleague of Roccia are trying to climb the summit. However, the attempt ends in tragedy: Martin returns to the base camp alone and tells that his companion was swept downhill by an avalanche, but also that the summit of Cerro Torre was climbed. When Roccia learns of the attempted ascent, he angrily leaves the camp to stay temporarily in Patagonia while the rest of the group returns to Europe.
There, however, many mountaineers strongly question Martin's alleged summit success, accusing him of lying and never having reached the summit. Martin does not want to let the allegations sit on him and then organizes a second expedition to Patagonia with Ivan, this time with a media entourage, in order to climb the Cerro Torre again.
Back in Patagonia, Ivan sets out to visit Roccia in his new home to exchange ideas. In the following, both Martin and Roccia meet an unknown climber who is apparently no longer in his mind, expresses himself as a great fan of Mae West and claims to have already been to Cerro Torre. While the expedition is preparing for the ascent and looking for locations for the cameras to follow Roccia's planned route through the north face, Martin climbs independently into another rock face, although the cameras are not yet set. A storm forces the climbers to stay on the wall and prevents any kind of relaxation. In an attempt to climb the ice mushroom on the summit, Martin falls under Roccia's eyes and remains dead in the rope. Roccia finally reaches the summit of Cerro Torre, but there is already an ice ax with a photo of Mae West on it. The strange mountaineer actually had success with his ascent.
background
Although the film has no historical reference, it contains many parallels in the dispute over the controversial first ascent of Cerro Torre in 1959 by the Italian climber Cesare Maestri and his partner, the Austrian Toni Egger , who fell fatally during the descent.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judged that the production was "partly top-class [...]" , but this does not prevent that "tension, drama and credibility are missing" .
Awards (selection)
At the Venice International Film Festival in 1991 Vittorio Mezzogiorno was named Best Actor. The entire cast was also honored.
Web links
- Cerro Torre: Scream of Stone in the Internet Movie Database (English)