Scream of Stone

Roccia

Martin

Stephen

Carla

Indianerin

Werbeagent

Himalaja-Bezwinger

Bergsteiger

Estanciero

Fingerless

Ivan

TV-Moderatorin

TV-Regisseur

(as Sebastian de la Cruz)

This film had it's world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in 1991, with Werner Herzog in attendance. He explained, during his introduction to the film, that they hadn't had time yet to add subtitles for the couple of scenes with Spanish dialog. During these scenes, Herzog himself, shouted out from the theater audience, the English translation of the lines spoken in Spanish.

Werner Herzog:  as the television director at the beginning of the film.

In his documentary 'I Am My Films' Werner Herzog discusses early pre-production details of 'Scream of Stone' with mountain climber Reinhold Messner, during which Herzog reveals that Klaus Kinski was originally going to play the leading character in the film; a role which subsequently went to Vittorio Mezzogiorno instead.

During Roger's climb of Cerro Torre, in the scene immediately following the blizzard, several crew members can be seen in the reflection of his goggles.

Fingerless: The old..."finger snatcher". I'll tell you you one thing. No one ever never will get to the top. I'll tell you why. Because Cerro Torre is not a mountain. It's a scream of stone. Yeah.

Ivan: Terrific. Terrific. He's going to run up the mountain.

Ivan: I forgot the garlic.