The Hole

Another work of nearly wordless organic beauty that touches on the mystical, the latest film by Michelangelo Frammartino chronicles a visit through unknown depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior.

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 for the first time ever Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. 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