''Scream of Stone'' (german: Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein) is a 1991 film directed by

Werner Herzog Werner Herzog (; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with u ...

about a climbing expedition on

Cerro Torre Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located in Argentina and Chile, west of Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chaltén). The peak is the highest of a four mountain chain: the other peak ...

. 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 manager In the cinema of the United States, a unit production manager (UPM) is the Directors Guild of America–approved title for the top below-the-line staff position, responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production. Non- ...

Walter Saxer, based on an idea from mountaineer

Reinhold Messner Reinhold Andreas Messner (; born 17 September 1944) is an Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author from South Tyrol. He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and, along with Peter Habeler, the first ascent of Everest without supplemental ...

, whom 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. He would not direct another feature film for ten years. The film has elements drawn from the history of the supposed first conquest of the summit of

in 1959, by the Italian climber Cesare Maestri and his partner, the Austrian Toni Egger, who died during the descent.

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* * 1991 films 1990s adventure drama films German adventure drama films English-language German films Mountaineering films Films directed by Werner Herzog Films set in Argentina Films set in Chile Films shot in Argentina Films shot in Chile 1991 drama films 1990s English-language films 1990s German films {{adventure-film-stub