THETALIA K2: SHOOTING BY MARIO FANTIN
Gender: Sports-anthropological documentary
Edited by Andrea Meneghelli. With Achille Compagnoni, Lino Lacedelli, Ardito Desio, Sergio Viotto, Walter Bonatti, Erich Abram, Pino Gallotti
More than a “rediscovered” work, it is a real rebirth, that of a film that had only existed in the mind of its author. The one of Mario Fantin, documentary maker specializing in alpine shooting who in 1953 was involved in the Italian expedition to Pakistan, to conquer K2.
Italy wanted to show the world that it had left the darkest years behind and reach the second highest peak in the world (8611 meters) could have been the best way.
A moment from the documentary “Italia K2. Filming by Mario Fantin ”.
So this extraordinary man of cinema was also asked to join the enterprise, who documented everything (excluding the arrival at the top, shot on his recommendation by the two winners, Compagnoni and Lacedelli).
But the official film of the company, entrusted to Marcello Baldi, dripped with rhetoric and so on the Cineteca di Bologna has decided to re-propose with the collaboration of the Cai only the shooting of Fantin without the thunderous voiceoveraccompanied by simple (and exciting) captions extracted from the operator’s personal diaries.
What so also demonstrates the sensitivity of an “anthropologist” (for local life) as well as an extraordinary cinematic eye. Obtaining the result of returning the emotion of a truly superhuman challenge to the times and the beauty of a sublime mountain.
For those who want to rediscover the pristine charm of the mountain
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