Country: France, Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 78'
Erto is a town in the Friuli Alps. A dam was built in its impervious valley at the end of the 50s: the Vajont Dam, which, at the time, was the tallest in the world. But in 1963 the side of Mount Toc collapsed into the dam’s artificial lake, causing a wave that killed almost two thousand people. On the other side of the valley, in front of that mountain, the people of Erto never stopped staging the Passion of Christ. For centuries, a Christ from Erto is betrayed, condemned, and crucified on Good Friday, while History goes on with its constructions and destructions, its victims and its survivors, and its Calvaries, real and imaginary.
Biography
film director
Penelope Bortoluzzi
Penelope Bortoluzzi (Venice, Italy), after studying literature and music in her hometown, went to Paris to study cinema. She made two short films, Coulisses and Caroline (the latter made for the television channel ARTE). Her first feature film, Fondamenta delle convertite, got a special mention at Florence’s Festival dei Popoli for Documentary Films. She founded in Paris the production company Picofilms in 2010, producing Stefano Savona’s documentary films Palazzo delle Aquile (screened at the 29th Torino Film Festival) and Tahrir Liberation Square (which she also edited).
FILMOGRAFIA
Coulisses (cm, 2003), Caroline (cm, 2007), Fondamenta delle convertite (2008), La Passione di Erto (2013).
Declaration
film director
“The film tells the story of a town through the two events that molded its history: an annual ancestral ritual, and a unique and unprecedented catastrophe. I wanted to tell the story of a community that bears the stigmata of its history, the faces from the present and the past, a valley and its scars, the eclipse of a world and its futile attempts to resist, the tragicomic vicissitudes of what is left of that world.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, MONTAGGIO
Penelope Bortoluzzi
FOTOGRAFIA
Penelope Bortoluzzi, Stefano Savona
SUONO
Jean Mallet, Xavier Thibault
PRODUZIONE
Picofilms, À Vif Cinémas, Dugong
Penelope Bortoluzzi
FOTOGRAFIA
Penelope Bortoluzzi, Stefano Savona
SUONO
Jean Mallet, Xavier Thibault
PRODUZIONE
Picofilms, À Vif Cinémas, Dugong
