Il buco / Doppio Nodo Double Bind with Rai Cinema ; produced by Marco Serrecchia, Michelangelo Frammartino, Philippe Bober ; screenplay by Giovanna Giuliani, Michelangelo Frammartino ; directed by Michelangelo Frammartino.

Widescreen ed.

1[New York, N.Y.] : Grasshopper Film, [2022]

©2022

1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe's highest building is being built in Italy's prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe's deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders' venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighboring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave with the group's journey. Another work of nearly wordless organic beauty that touches on the mystical from the visionary director of Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino's Il Buco chronicles a visit through unknown depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior.

Images / Video & Film

Italian

September 19, 2023

Director of photography, Renato Berta ; editor, Benni Atria.

Nicola Lanza, Antonio Lanza, Leonardo Larocca, Claudio Candusso, Paolo Cossi, Jacopo Elia, Denise Trombin.

DVD, widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby Digital audio; [color].

MWT rating: NR.