Scream of Stone

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.

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
Edited by	Suzanne Baron
Release date	1991
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Germany France Canada
Language	English

The script was written principally by longtime Herzog production manager 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 film 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.