CAVEMAN

CAVEMAN - IL GIGANTE NASCOSTO

By Tommaso LANDUCCI

CONTRAST FILM ZÜRICH GMBH - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2021

Sculptor Filippo Dobrilla considers art as a rebellion. For over 30 years he sculpted a giant marble nude into the most impervious nature, in an inaccessible cave. But nature itself was fatally opposed to his crazy undertaking.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2020
Cannes Docs / Docs-in-Progress
Venice Film Festival 2021
Giornate degli Autori
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Drama, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • ITALY, SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 92 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tommaso LANDUCCI
    • Writer(s)
    • Tommaso LANDUCCI, Damiano FEMFERT
    • Producer(s)
    • Marco VISALBERGHI (DocLab), Ivan MADEO (Contrast Film), Dario ZONTA (Creative Producer)
    • Synopsis
    • Filippo is an eccentric sculptor who rejected all social conventions throughout his life. Now, at the age of 50, he decides to escape from the loneliness and poverty he had chosen and to reveal himself and his works to society.
      But the price Filippo has to pay is high. He has to leave the dark cave, 650 meters under ground, into which he has been fleeing for 30 years. The cave which holds his deepest secret: a colossal male marble nude which he has carved deep down into the rock embodying his inner turmoil. His masterpiece, which no one should ever have seen during his lifetime...