Il buco The Hole directed by Michelangelo Frammartino - 78th Venice International Film Festival

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Simona Cochi introducing IL BUCO (The Hole) directed by Michelangelo Frammartino.
In 1961, a team of very young speleologists left a north in full economic boom and embarked on a campaign in the rural south, up to the Calabrian hinterland of the Pollino.
Between Cerchiara and San Lorenzo Bellizzi, explore the abyss of the Bifurto and after endless days of immersion touches the bottom of -687 meters. It was then the third deepest cave in the world.
"Starting from a crowded northern station, we arrived at dawn on a deserted Calabrian coast. Never before had Italian speleology pushed an exploration campaign so far south ... "
Grotte Bulletin September / October 1961
SYNOPSIS
During the economic boom of the 1960s, the tallest building in Europe was built in prosperous northern Italy. At the other end of the country, in August 1961, a group of young speleologists visited the Calabrian plateau and its pristine hinterland, plunging into the subsoil of a South that everyone is abandoning. Thus they discover with its 700 meters depth one of the deepest caves in the world, the Abisso del Bifurto of the Pollino plateau, under the gaze of an old shepherd, the only witness of the uncontaminated territory.

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