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Director:
Werner Herzog
Writers:
Hans-Ulrich Klenner (written by) &
Walter Saxer (written by) ...
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Release Date:
3 October 1991 (Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one is an experienced mountaineer the other a free climber,... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Minor Herzog but an engaging yarn more

Cast

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Vittorio Mezzogiorno ... Roccia
Mathilda May ... Katharina
Stefan Glowacz ... Martin
Al Waxman ... Stephen
Gunilla Karlzen ... Carla
Chavela Vargas ... Indianerin
Georg Marischka ... Werbeagent
Volker Prechtel ... Himalaja-Bezwinger
Hans Kammerlander ... Bergsteiger
Lautaro Murúa ... Estanciero

Brad Dourif ... Fingerless

Donald Sutherland ... Ivan
Amelie Fried ... TV-Moderatorin

Werner Herzog ... TV-Regisseur
Wolfgang Müller
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cerro Torre Scream of Stone (Canada: English title)
Cerro Torre, le cri de la roche (France)
La conquête de la peur (Canada: French title)
Scream of Stone
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Runtime:
105 min
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Germany:6 (w)
Filming Locations:
Patagonia, Argentina

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Director Cameo: [Werner Herzog]as the television director at the beginning of the film. more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: During Roger's climb of Cerro Torre, in the scene immediately following the blizzard, several crew members can be seen in the reflection of his goggles. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into Cliffhanger (1993) more
Soundtrack:
Tristan und Isolde more

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8 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Minor Herzog but an engaging yarn, 23 August 2004
Author: TrevorAclea from London, England

Werner Herzog's Scream of Stone is a legend in film sales: a big-budget German-French-Canadian mountaineering drama that became a byword for how not to sell a movie to foreign distributors when they asked so much money that no-one could afford it and it went virtually unreleased before turning up a decade latter on budget DVD (the UK disc retails at £5.99, and this is its first release).

It's actually not at all bad, although there's surprisingly little mountaineering in it: the main thrust of the film is the conflict between a legendary mountaineer who fails to climb an infamous Patagonian mountain and the exhibition climber who claims to have done so, with a restrained Donald Sutherland as the sports journalist caught in the middle and Mathilda May making a better job of the obligatory love interest than the script should let her. Brad Dourif turns up briefly as a fingerless climber infatuated with Mae West and seeming to channel the spirit of early Jack Nicholson (well, it is Herzog - you expected restraint?), but even he is less wild than expected.

The least successful element is the comic relief introduction of Al Waxman's tiresome TV producer towards the end (as well as an actress who HAD to be sleeping with either the director or one of the producers), but it's not fatal. It's a minor film, but an engaging watch with some good photography (albeit the film was surprisingly not shot in widescreen, presumably to emphasise height over width) and a neat ending.

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