L’ABISSO
THE ABYSS
Alessandro Anderloni / Italy / 2005 / 75 min / Colour
Awe-inspiring, harsh, and with only a single entrance, the Spluga della Preta plunges beneath the meadows of the Lessinia Mountains. Explored for the first time in 1925, until 1953 it was considered the deepest abyss in the world. It is the cave most linked to the history of explorative speleology, where dreams, ideals, and deceits have faced off and new techniques have been experimented with. In its amazing wells and narrow fissures, some of the most exciting pages of speleology in the world have been written. The first video documentation of the Black Room, at more than 800 meters below ground level, required two years of filming, thirty descents into the caverns, and the involvement of more than seventy speleologists, and has by now become a classic of films about speleology.
Alessandro Anderloni
After earning a degree in Modern Literature from the University of Verona, he dedicated himself to theater as an author and director, writing and staging more than fifty original works. He collaborated with RAI on the program La Storia Siamo Noi. In 2005, he made his first documentary L’abisso, which won several international awards. His 2024 film Velovelodico received two special prizes at the Trento Film Festival. Since 1997, he has served as director of the Film Festival della Lessinia.
Credits
Subject Francesco SauroScreenplay Francesco Sauro, Alessandro AnderloniSound Samuele TezzaEditing Paolo CastellettiMusic Alessandro AnderloniMain cast Sandro Dalle Pezze, Giovanni Ferrarese, Cristiano Zoppello, Fanny Cerato, Marco Baroncini, Attilio Benetti, Aurelio Pavanello, Lorenzo Cargnel, Giordano Canducci, Franco Florio, Edoardo VernierProduction company Accademia della Lessinia e Federazione Speleologica Veneta
