A bat flies over the slopes of a resplendent Cervinia, star of the post-war economic boom, tourist destination for the VIPs of a world now gone.
He is Leo Gasperl, a superlative athlete, an aesthete of skiing, a creator of styles and manners. A portrait of a man literally outside the norm.
Luca Bich, a native of Aosta in the Italian Alps, graduated from the University of Bologna with a thesis on Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and visual anthropologist. He directs ethnographic documentaries in different parts of the world, including Ireland, Kyrgyzstan and Burkina Faso, as well as the Alps. His film Verso dove, about the famous mountaineer Kurt Diemberger, won international recognition and distribution in France with Filigranowa.
Andrea Brugnoli, born in 1968 and graduated in Dams, has worked on national and international film and television projects since the early 2000s. In 2006, he moved to the USA where he worked for RAI Corporation. In 2008 he directed Un sogno chiamato Cuba for Rai 3. Since 2010 he has collaborated with major American broadcasters in the field of news and documentaries.