Vajont - La diga del disonore (2001)

Director:

Renzo Martinelli

Writers:

Pietro Calderoni (writer)
Renzo Martinelli (writer)

Release Date:

19 October 2001 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam...

Plot Keywords:

Dam | Water | Mud | Director On Camera | Cemetery

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Michel Serrault	...	Carlo Semenza
Daniel Auteuil	...	Alberico Biadene
Laura Morante	...	Tina Merlin
Jorge Perugorría	...	Olmo Montaner
Anita Caprioli	...	Ancilla
Leo Gullotta	...	Mario Pancini
Philippe Leroy	...	Giorgio dal Piaz
Jean-Christophe Brétigniere	...	Edoardo Semenza
Nicola Di Pinto	...	Francesco Penta
Federica Martinelli	...	Margherita
Eleonora Martinelli	...	Giannina
Maurizio Trombini	...	Ing. Desidera
Bruno Bilotta	...	Remo
Paco Reconti	...	Bertolissi
Antonio Fabbri	...	Prof. Ghetti

Also Known As:

La folie des hommes (France)
Vajont (Italy) (short title)

Runtime:

116 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian | French

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

France:U | Italy:T

Filming Locations:

Belluno, Veneto, Italy

Company:

Canal+

Trivia:

Selected for the Villerupt Italian Film Festival 2002.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Anita Caprioli screams as the water wave is coming, but her mouth is not open.

Quotes:

Ancilla: That's a beautiful story. Really... If I think about it... I'd like a story like that too.
Olmo Montaner: For a story like that, you have to start from the beginning.
Ancilla: [looking at a wooden sculpture] Listen... you didn't chose this one at random...
Olmo Montaner: Well, I was thinking... it's time to start a family.
Ancilla: Yes but... it takes two people to start a family.
Olmo Montaner: But there are two of us...

Soundtrack:

Stella

A good disaster movie

Because it deals with real facts ,"Vajont" has almost nothing to do with the disaster movies which were thriving in the seventies.It does not feature the cardboard characters and the cast of thousands we used to find there.Outside Laura Morante ,all the actors give restrained performances .The film recreates the atmosphere of the tragedy of the drama in an almost documentary way.Only the young couple displays a storylike tendency,and even that is kept to a minimum level.

At its best ,the movie sometimes recalls the forties and fifties Italian neorealism.The color is actually close to black and white ,and two scenes are particularly memorable:the victims of the flooding,leaving their village ,while a crucifix Christ is floating on the waters;the surveyor,finding his rocking-chair in the mud.