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La Funivia del Faloria
ITALY · 1950

La Funivia del Faloria

Michelangelo Antonioni
mountain documentary funicular railway alpine tourism vertigo and heights Italian landscape
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Synopsis

Vertigine (Vertigo) is the original title of a fragment of around 4', signed by Michelangelo Antonioni, which is a part of the eight-minutes documentary La funivia del Faloria. The title was eventually modified in La funivia del Faloria because considered more effective to obtain the governmental prize (at the time the minimum length allowed was 8 minutes). Vertigine was shot in 1949 with the cine

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