IL BUCO

By Michelangelo FRAMMARTINO

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Drama - Completed 2021

In August 1961, speleologists from Italy’s booming North arrive on a Calabrian plateau. There, time stands still. Under the gaze of an old shepherd, the only witness of the pristine territory, the intruders explore the Bifurto Abyss. The group’s journey into one of the world’s deepest caves now inte

Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2021
World Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ITALY, FRANCE, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • No dialog
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Michelangelo FRAMMARTINO
    • Writer(s)
    • Giovanna GIULIANI
    • Producer(s)
    • Marco SERRECCHIA (Doppo Noddio Double Bind), Philippe BOBER (Société Parisienne de Production), Philippe BOBER (Essential Filmproduktion)
    • Synopsis
    • 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 neighbouring 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, IL BUCO chronicles a visit through unknown depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior.

      Photography by award-winning master Renato Berta.

      4K Dolby Atmos