Archive of films Hole / Il buco

Italy / France / Germany
2021, 93 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2022

Synopsis

In 1962, a group of young speleologists from northern Italy set out for the country’s south to explore the seemingly bottomless maw of an unexplored abyss, which turns out to be one of the deepest ever discovered. Visually compelling imagery brings to life the vertiginous and lofty beauty of nature as well as man’s determination and fragility. In its detachment from the event’s participants, the film’s fly-on-the-wall narrative emphasizes the overwhelming chasm between the small and transient existence of man and the breathtaking mountains and dark depths of the karst. The Hole earned the Special Jury Prize at the Venice film festival.

Vít Kořínek

About the director

Michelangelo Frammartino (1968, Milan). Filmography: Tracce (1995, short), L’occhio e lo spirito (1997, short), Scappa Valentina (2001, short), Io non posso entrare (2002, short), Dar (Il dono, 2003), Le quattro volte (2010), Alberi (2013, short doc.), The Hole (Il buco, 2021).

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section:	Horizons

Director:	Michelangelo Frammartino
Screenplay:	Michelangelo Frammartino
Dir. of Photography:	Renato Berta
Sound:	Simone Paolo Olivero
Editor:	Benni Atria
Art Director:	Giliano Carli
Producer:	Philippe Bober, Michelangelo Frammartino
Production:	Doppio Nodo Double Bind
Coproduction:	Rai Cinema, Parisienne de Production, Essential Films
Cast:	Paolo Cossi, Jacopo Elia, Denise Trombin, Nicola Lanza
Sales:	Coproduction Office
Distributor:	Aerofilms