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1991 film by Werner Herzog

Scream of Stone

Directed by	Werner Herzog
Written by	Hans-Ulrich Klenner Walter Saxer Robert Geoffrion
Produced by	Walter Saxer Henri Lange Richard Sadler
Starring	Vittorio Mezzogiorno Stefan Glowacz Mathilda May Donald Sutherland Brad Dourif Al Waxman Chavela Vargas Hans Kammerlander Volker Prechtel
Cinematography	Rainer Klausmann
Edited by	Suzanne Baron
Release date	1991 (1991)
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	Germany France Canada
Language	English

Scream of Stone (German: Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein) is a 1991 film directed by Werner Herzog about a climbing expedition on Cerro Torre. The film was shot on location at Cerro Torre, with several scenes filmed close to the summit.

Plot

Two champion climbers, young Martin and experienced Roger, compete to be the first to conquer a daunting snow-covered peak.

Production

The film is based on the history of the supposed first conquest of the summit of Cerro Torre in 1959, by the Italian climber Cesare Maestri and his partner, the Austrian Toni Egger, who died during the descent. Cerro Torre is known as one of the most difficult climbs in the world due to difficult weather conditions and lack of a clear ascent route. Maestri's claim was later challenged as he failed to give substantial proofs on reaching the summit.

The script was written principally by longtime Herzog production manager Walter Saxer, based on an idea from mountaineer Reinhold Messner, whom Herzog had worked with in his documentary The Dark Glow of the Mountains. Herzog, usually an author of screenplays to his films, believed that the script was weak, especially the dialogue, and even commented that he didn't consider Scream of Stone to be his film. Still, he praised some mountain climbing sequences of the film as "the most impressive thing you can see on screen, much more <...> than anything in a Hollywood blockbuster", because Stefan Glowacz climbed the mountain in single takes without safety lines.

References

"Scream of Stone". Variety. 1990-12-31. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
Hegnsvad 2021.
Prager 1991. sfn error: no target: CITEREFPrager1991 (help)
Cronin 2014.

Sources

Prager, Brad (2011). The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth. New York: Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-0-231-50213-9.
Cronin, Paul (2014). Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-25978-6.
Hegnsvad, Kristoffer (2021). Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78914-411-6.

External links

Scream of Stone at IMDb
Scream of Stone at Rotten Tomatoes

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Filmography Bibliography
Feature films	Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2006) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015) Salt and Fire (2016) Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1981) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012) Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Into the Inferno (2016) Meeting Gorbachev (2018) Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
Shorts	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1968) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)
Other	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
Books	Of Walking in Ice (1978) Conquest of the Useless (2004) The Twilight World (2021) Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2022)
Related	Lena Herzog (wife) Lucki Stipetić (brother) Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) Burden of Dreams (1982) Location Africa (1987) Plastic Bag (2009)
Category

v t e Golden Osella winning films
The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987) Hip Hip Hurrah! (1987) House of Games (1987) Maurice (1987) The Black Monk (1988) Burning Secret (1988) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Australia (1989) I Want to Go Home (1989) Boys on the Outside (1990) No Fear, No Die (1990) The Only Witness (1990) Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991) Mississippi Masala (1991) Scream of Stone (1991) 1, 2, 3, Sun (1993) Three Colours: Blue (1993) Ashes of Time (1994) Lamerica (1994) The Tit and the Moon (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) Maborosi (1995) Deep Crimson (1996) Chinese Box (1997) Dry Cleaning (1997) Ossos (1997) Autumn Tale (1998) Shooting the Moon (1998) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) Regular Lovers (2005) Children of Men (2006) The Queen (2006) It's a Free World... (2007) Lust, Caution (2007) Paper Soldier (2008) Teza (2008) Life During Wartime (2009) Mr. Nobody (2009) The Last Circus (2010) Silent Souls (2010) Alps (2011) Wuthering Heights (2011) It Was the Son (2012) Something in the Air (2012)

Golden Osella winning films

The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
Hip Hip Hurrah! (1987)
House of Games (1987)
Maurice (1987)
The Black Monk (1988)
Burning Secret (1988)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Australia (1989)
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Boys on the Outside (1990)
No Fear, No Die (1990)
The Only Witness (1990)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Scream of Stone (1991)
1, 2, 3, Sun (1993)
Three Colours: Blue (1993)
Ashes of Time (1994)
Lamerica (1994)
The Tit and the Moon (1994)
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
Maborosi (1995)
Deep Crimson (1996)
Chinese Box (1997)
Dry Cleaning (1997)
Ossos (1997)
Autumn Tale (1998)
Shooting the Moon (1998)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
Regular Lovers (2005)
Children of Men (2006)
The Queen (2006)
It's a Free World... (2007)
Lust, Caution (2007)
Paper Soldier (2008)
Teza (2008)
Life During Wartime (2009)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
The Last Circus (2010)
Silent Souls (2010)
Alps (2011)
Wuthering Heights (2011)
It Was the Son (2012)
Something in the Air (2012)

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