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30th Film Festival of Lessinia Bosco Chiesanuova 22 - 31 August 2025

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L’ABISSO

THE ABYSS

Alessandro Anderloni 

75' / 

Italy 

/ 2005

Imposing, unforgiving, with a single entrance, the Spluga della Preta plunges beneath the pastures of the Lessini Mountains in the Venetian Prealps. First explored in 1925, it was considered the deepest abyss in the world until 1953. It is the cave most deeply entwined with the history of exploratory speleology—a place where dreams, ideals, even deceptions have collided, and where new techniques were pioneered. Within its vast shafts and impossibly tight squeezes, some of the most exhilarating chapters in world caving history have been written. In the autumn of 2004, a team of speleologists discovered a new branch within the cave. Eighty years after the original descent, expeditions resumed in search of unknown paths, chasing air currents flowing toward the Adige Valley. Two years of filming, thirty descents into the abyss, and more than seventy speleologists were involved in telling the captivating story of exploration in the Splugadella Preta—and in capturing, for the first time on film, the Sala Nera, 900 meters deep at the bottom of one of the world’s most challenging caves.

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Alessandro Anderloni

AlessandroAnderloni

After graduating in Modern Literature at 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 2000, 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 Lessinia Film Festival.

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