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Scream Of Stone [DVD] [1991]

DVD ~ Vittorio Mezzogiorno
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Stefan Glowacz, Al Waxman, Gunilla Karlzen
  • Directors: Werner Herzog
  • Writers: Walter Saxer, Hans-Ulrich Klenner, Reinhold Messner, Robert Geoffrion
  • Producers: Henry Lange, Richard Sadler, Walter Saxer
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 5 April 2004
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000C24GN
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 49,956 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Two experienced climbers, Roccia and Martin, are rivals who challenge each other to climb one of the most difficult mountains in the world, Cerre Torre in Argentina's Patagonia. This dangerous challenge was sparked by the death of a mutual friend, and animosity over Martin stealing Roccia's girlfriend. Donald Sutherland play a TV journalist intent on covering the climb and takes bets on who will be the first to reach the summit.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Minor Herzog but an engaging yarn, 17 Oct 2004
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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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 (this is its first UK release in any form).

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.

No extras - not even a menu (although the disc is chaptered), but more than acceptable at the bargain price.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars slow but ends on a high, 13 Jan 2005
By simon gurney - See all my reviews
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scream of stone is based on a true story of the ascent of cerro torre in the fitzroy range in argentinian patagonia, and as such its interesting to see how the story was handled, and the elements that herzog has woven in such as the competition and the character of fingers work well to compliment the myth. although, its hard to imagaine the film would hold much interest to anyone not interested in the climbing or the locations, its a fairly slow film and in terms of pace and feel could easily have been shot ten years or more before 1991.
The last sequence with the two climbers battling it out to ascend the torre is spectacular, and the ending ultimately satisying.
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3.0 out of 5 stars story of Cerro Torre - not so much, 19 Sep 2009
By P. Masiar "Rockies climber" (Calgary, AB, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This is a classic CLIMBING MOVIE plot:

1) a veteran climber
2) a young upcoming climber ( a star )
2) a girl who does not know what she wants, involved with both climbers
4) a rotten journalist who feeds on tragedy of others

The quality of the movie is bad, well below DVD standard ( very annoying ). Some of the climbing scenes are nice - you know right away when the professionals are climbing by the way they move. In general as in many other movies the climbers are portrayed as reckless, emotional, people who risk their lives for very obscure ideals, etc. This may be true for some, but it is not true for most of the climbing community. Other ideals like beauty, perseverance, hard work and dedication are not portrayed in the film at all. Some climbing scenes are outright stupid - a good laugh.
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