Directors

ENRICO CAMANNI was born in 1957. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Rivista della Montagna, in 1985 he founded the monthly magazine Alp. He is currently director of L'Alpe, an international magazine about the alpine way of life. Camanni has published many books on alpine literature and history, an essay on the geology of the Alps (In principio era il mare) and an anthology on Dino Buzzati (Le montagne di vetro). He cooperated in a book-survey about suicide in Italy (L'ultimo messaggio) for Gruppo Abele. He has written two novels based on true stories: Cieli di pietra - la vera storia di Amé Gorret and La guerra di Joseph (Itas Prize 1999). La montagna inventata marks is debut as a film-maker.

VINCENZO PASQUALI was born in 1944. Following a variety of experiences in publishing, he developed an interest in audiovisual communication: firstly with multivision and successively with videos. Pasquali has directed documentaries for industry, tourism and sport. In collaboration with the National Mountain Museum and Pubbliviva, a production company, he makes films about the arts, nature and the mountains. His films include: Nuova Zelanda - Alpi e vulcani nel Sud Pacifico, Black Out (1988) and Fino all'ultimo spit (1986). Pasquali is also fascinated by research into photography: landscape, industrial sites, still life, architecture and fashion.

A journalist, unfamiliar with the mountains, is asked to write an article on the history of two hundred years of mountaineering.

Perplexed, she takes on the job and gradually becomes involved in the subject.

Alone in an austere country house, she is conquered by the apparently irrational adventures of an entirely male world.

From the beginning, she is aware of the contrast between the ethics of idealism and the pragmatism of the technique.

Numerous human portraits emerge which highlight the cyclicity of these two views united by a great passion for the mountains.

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