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Dir-Scr Valentina Zucco Pedicini
Prod Alessandro Borrelli, (Executive Producer), Daniel Mahlknecht (Associate Producer)
Italy, 2013, 72′
Where do we end up when we die? “Underground”, we have always been told.
Dal Profondo shifts perspective to show lives hidden 500 metres below ground. Endless night, no changing of the seasons, no passing of time. A job as old as time itself, with its own pride and its own curse. Miles of tunnels. Darkness. Coal-blackened men. One woman. Patrizia, Italy's only female miner, talks to her dead father, a memory never laid to rest. 150 miners, the last of their kind, ready to do battle with the surface world to ward off imminent closure.
A unique experience for the film-maker, a unique experience for the viewer and for those responsible for this upside-down world. All this to the rhythm of a prayer dedicated to the memory of the dead and the ears of the living: “De profundis, clamavi ad te, o Domine…”
Valentina Zucco Pedicini was born in Brindisi in 1978. At the age of 18 she moved to Rome to study Italian Philology and Linguistics, and subsequently studied at the Scuola Internazionale di Documentario Zelig, graduating with top grades in Directing. Her documentaries have been selected for numerous Italian and international film festivals. Dal Profondo was selected for the IDFA Academy and the Berlinale Talent Campus, and won the 2011 Premio Solinas in the category Documentario per il Cinema. Dal Profondo is her first full-length film since My Marlboro City, Mio Sovversivo Amore and Pater Noster.
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