| Scream of Stone | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Werner Herzog |
| Produced by | Walter Saxer Henri Lange Richard Sadler |
| Written by | Hans-Ulrich Klenner Walter Saxer Robert Geoffrion |
| Starring | Vittorio Mezzogiorno Stefan Glowacz Mathilda May Donald Sutherland Brad Dourif Al Waxman Chavela Vargas Hans Kammerlander Volker Prechtel |
| Cinematography | Rainer Klausmann |
| Editing by | Suzanne Baron |
| Release date(s) | 1991 |
| Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Germany France Canada |
| Language | English |
Scream of Stone 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.
The script was written principally by longtime Herzog production designer Walter Saxer, based on an idea from mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who Herzog had worked with in his documentary The Dark Glow of the Mountains. Herzog, who usually writes his own screenplays, believes that the script was weak, especially the dialogue, and says that he does not consider Scream of Stone to be his film. [1] The movie has elements drawn from 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.