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Caveman: The Hidden Giant
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Caveman: The Hidden Giant

2021-09-08 · 91 min · Not rated

Documentary

It has been almost thirty years since Filippo Dobrilla started to sculpt a giant male nude inside a cave 650 metres deep in the Apuan Alps. This almost inaccessible place has jealously protected his secret: his youthful passion for a fellow climber, a passion Filippo was only able to indulge in here in the intimacy of this cave. Even after it was over and ever since then, Filippo has been returning regularly to the cave to work on the most important sculpture of his life, a masterpiece no one will see.

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Directors
Tommaso Landucci
Production companies
Doclab, Contrast Film, RSI, SRG SSR, Filmcoopi Zürich, MiC, Sensi Contemporanei Cinema e Audiovisivo, Toscana per il cinema, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Zurich Film Fund, Volkart Stiftung, Stiftung Corymbo, Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, Deckert Distribution
Countries
Italy, Switzerland
Status
Released

Top Cast

Filippo DobrillaSelf
Vittorio SgarbiVittorio SgarbiSelf
Alessandro BenvenutiAlessandro BenvenutiNarrator (voice)

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