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 neighboring 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 from the visionary director of Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino's IL BUCO chronicles a visit through unknown depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior.

GENRE: Drama
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 1h 33m
RELEASE DATE: May 13, 2022
STARRING: Paolo Cossi, Jacopo Elia, Denise Trombin, Mila Costi, Angelo Spadaro
DIRECTOR(S): Michelangelo Frammartino
PRODUCER(S): Marco Serrecchia, Philippe Bober, Michelangelo Frammartino
WRITER(S): Michelangelo Frammartino, Giovanna Giuliani
STUDIO: Grasshopper Film