Country: GFR
Year: 1967
Duration: 90'
Biography
film director
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (Munich, Germany, 1942) grew up in a small town in Bavaria and debuted with the short film Herakles in 1962, before going on to study history, literature and theatre at the University of Munich. Since then, he has made over fifty films, including Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Lessons of Darkness, Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He is universally acclaimed as one of the greatest filmmakers alive and has received several prestigious awards. He has also participated to the Torino Film Festival, presenting Grizzly Man in 2005, Into the Abyss in 2011, and The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft in 2022.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lebenszeichen (Segni di vita, 1968), Fata Morgana (id., 1971), Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Paese del silenzio e dell’oscurità, doc, 1971), Aguirre, der Zom Gottes (Aguirre, furore di Dio, 1972), Jeder für und Gott gegen alle (L'enigma di Kaspar Hauser, 1974), Herz aus Glas (Cuore di vetro, 1976), Stroszek (La ballata di Stroszek, 1977), Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu, principe della notte, 1979), Woyzeck (id., 1979), Fitzcarraldo (id., 1982), Lektionen in Finsternis (Apocalisse nel deserto, mm, doc., 1992), The White Diamond (Il diamante bianco, doc, 2004), Grizzly Man (id., doc, 2005), The Wild Blue Yonder (L’ignoto spazio profondo, doc, 2005), Encounters at the End of the World (id., doc, 2007), My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (id., 2009), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (id., 2010), Into the Abyss - A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life (doc., 2011), Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (Lo and Behold, doc, 2016), Queen of the Desert (2015), Into the Inferno (Dentro l’inferno, doc., 2016), Salt and Fire (2016), Family Romance, LLC (2019), Meeting Gorbachev (Herzog incontra Gorbaciov, 2018), Nomad: in the Foosteps of Bruce Chatwin (Nomad - In cammino con Bruce Chatwin, 2019), Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (Fireball - Messaggeri dalle stelle, 2020), The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (doc, 2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Werner Herzog.
Plot: da motivi del racconto Der tolle Invalide auf dem Fort Ratonneau (1818) di Achim von Arnim.
Screenplay: W. Herzog.
Fotografia (35mm, b/n): Thomas Mauch.
Assistente alla fotografia: Dietrich Lohmann.
Editor: Beate Mainka, Maximiliane Mainka.
Music: Stavros Xarchakos.
Sound: Herbert Prasch.
Collaborazione: Florian Fricke, Ina Fritsche, Tasos Karobelas, Mike Piller, Thomas Hartwig, Bettina von Waldhausen, Friederike Petzold, Martje Grohmann.
Cast: Peter Broglé (Stroszek), WoUgang Reichmann (Meinhard), Athina Zacharopoulo (Nora), WoUgang von UngernSternberg (Becker), Wolfgang Stumpf (capitano), Henry van Lyck (tenente), Julio Pinheiro (zingaro), Florian Fricke (pianista), Heinz Usener (medico), Werner Herzog (soldato), Achmed Hafis (abitante del luogo), Jannakis Frasakis, Katerinaki (bambini).
Production company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (Monaco).
Director of Production: Nicos Triandafyllidis.
Riprese: a Kos e Creta, giugno, luglio e settembre 1967.
Costo: 400.000 marchi (circa).
Prima proiezione: 25/6/1968 al Festival di Berlino
Orso d'argento alla Berlinale 1968.
Plot: da motivi del racconto Der tolle Invalide auf dem Fort Ratonneau (1818) di Achim von Arnim.
Screenplay: W. Herzog.
Fotografia (35mm, b/n): Thomas Mauch.
Assistente alla fotografia: Dietrich Lohmann.
Editor: Beate Mainka, Maximiliane Mainka.
Music: Stavros Xarchakos.
Sound: Herbert Prasch.
Collaborazione: Florian Fricke, Ina Fritsche, Tasos Karobelas, Mike Piller, Thomas Hartwig, Bettina von Waldhausen, Friederike Petzold, Martje Grohmann.
Cast: Peter Broglé (Stroszek), WoUgang Reichmann (Meinhard), Athina Zacharopoulo (Nora), WoUgang von UngernSternberg (Becker), Wolfgang Stumpf (capitano), Henry van Lyck (tenente), Julio Pinheiro (zingaro), Florian Fricke (pianista), Heinz Usener (medico), Werner Herzog (soldato), Achmed Hafis (abitante del luogo), Jannakis Frasakis, Katerinaki (bambini).
Production company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (Monaco).
Director of Production: Nicos Triandafyllidis.
Riprese: a Kos e Creta, giugno, luglio e settembre 1967.
Costo: 400.000 marchi (circa).
Prima proiezione: 25/6/1968 al Festival di Berlino
Orso d'argento alla Berlinale 1968.