''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. The script was written principally by longtime Herzog production manager Walter Saxer, based on an idea from mountaineer Reinhold Messner, whom Herzog had worked with in his documentary ''

The Dark Glow of the Mountains ''The Dark Glow of the Mountains'' (german: Gasherbrum – Der Leuchtende Berg) is a TV documentary made in 1985 by German filmmaker Werner Herzog. It is about an expedition made by mountain climber Reinhold Messner and his partner Hans Kammer ...

''. 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 Cerro Torre in 1959, by the Italian climber

Cesare Maestri Cesare Maestri (2 October 1929 – 19 January 2021) was an Italian mountaineer and writer. He was born in Trento in the Italian province of Trentino. He began climbing in the Dolomites, where he repeated many famous routes, often climbing t ...

and his partner, the Austrian

Toni Egger Toni, Toñi or Tóni is a unisex given name. In Spanish, Italian, Croatian and Finnish, it is a masculine given name used as a short form of the names derived from Antonius like Antonio, Ante or Anttoni. In Danish, English, Finnish, Norwegia ...

, who died during the descent.

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