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EXCLUSIVE: Italy’s Be Water Film and Rai Cinema person unveiled caller images for Daniele Vicari’s play Bianco astir an infamous 1961 mountaineering mishap which happened arsenic 7 elite alpinists tried to standard Mont Blanc’s perilous cardinal Frêney pillar.
The eager 11.5M euro ($13.2M) task revisits nan calamity which continues to spark statement successful mountaineering circles to this day.
Alessandro Borghi (The Eight Mountains) stars arsenic Italian alpinist Walter Bonatti who group retired to conquer nan pillar successful July 1961 pinch trusted climbing partners Andrea Oggioni and Roberto Gallieni. Referred to astatine nan clip arsenic “the past awesome problem”, nan 800-meter (2,600 ft) vertical wall starring to Mont Blanc’s acme was nan past unscaled look of Western Europe’s tallest mountain.
Part measurement up, they crossed paths pinch a French four-man statement squad led by Pierre Mazeaud and including his champion friend Pierre Kohlman, alongside climbing partners Robert Guillaume and Antoine Vieille, who was nan youngest of nan statement astatine conscionable 22-years old.
The teams joined forces connected nan last portion of nan ascent, but erstwhile a ferocious large wind struck connected a conception known arsenic nan Chandelle, nan men became trapped connected nan pillar for 4 days and nights without food, shelter, aliases escape.
Borghi is joined successful nan formed by Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger By The Lake), Finnegan Oldfield (Alpha), Marlon Joubert (Parthenope), Quentin Faure (Furies) Alessio Del Mastro (Mussolini: Son of nan Century) and Jonas Bloquet (Sea Shadows).
The movie is produced Italy’s Be Water Film pinch Rai Cinema, successful co-production pinch France’s The Project Film Club and Belgium’s Tarantula. 01 Distribution will grip nan Italian theatrical release.
Rai Cinema International Distribution, which is handling world sales, will unveil first footage successful Cannes, pinch nan accumulation slated for completion successful nan 4th fourth of nan year.
The accumulation spent 3 months shooting astatine altitudes of betwixt 3,000 to 3,500 meters (9,800 to 11,400 ft) adjacent to sites of nan real-life events successful Italy’s Aosta Valley, pinch nan accumulation besides recreating nan pillar successful 3 parts successful a studio.
“We went arsenic precocious arsenic 3,500 metres precocious but we couldn’t sprout connected nan existent pillar because it’s conscionable excessively dangerous,” said Be Water Film CEO Mattia Guerra, nan erstwhile long-time Lucky Red exec who took up his domiciled successful precocious 2023.
Bianco is a decade-long passion task for Vicari whose erstwhile credits see Maximum Velocity (V-Max) (2002) My Country (2006), Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood (2006) and astir precocious Tired of Killing: Autobiography of an Assassin which premiered successful Venice past year.
He co-wrote nan screenplay pinch Massimo Gaudioso (Gomorrah, Io Capitano), Francesca Manieri (L’Immensità) and Marco Albino Ferrari, a writer specialized successful upland culture.
Key unit see long-time Vicari collaborators, cinematographer Gherardo Gossi, editor Benni Atria and group designer Marta Maffucci arsenic good arsenic costume designer Emmanuele Youchnovski (The Substance). Sound is by Marc Bastien (The Great Ambition) and Franco Piscopo (A Missing Part), and nan original people by Luca D’Alberto.
Belgium and France-based institution Benuts (The Substance, Beating Hearts and The Three Musketeers) is overseeing nan VFX.
The movie marks a awesome measurement for Rome-based Be Water Film, which launched successful 2021 arsenic portion of nan Be Water media group, which besides comprises nan integer contented master Will and podcast institution Chora.
“This is our astir eager task to date. Our semipermanent extremity is to do make 1 large world task a year, and this is our first,” said Guerra.
The task chimed pinch Be Water Film connected a number of levels.
“We believed successful nan screenplay and nan project, but besides felt it had world scope acknowledgment to Walter Bonatti’s renown arsenic good arsenic nan existent liking successful nan mountains and activities specified arsenic climbing,” he said.
“Technological developments complete nan past decade besides meant it was imaginable to seizure nan upland backdrop successful a measurement that would person been difficult erstwhile Daniele first started processing nan task a decade ago.”
