The film Monte Corno – Pareva che io fussi in aria , which recounts the feat of Francesco De Marchi, a mountaineer by passion, who on Aug. 19, 1573, reached the summit of Corno Grande, the highest peak in the Gran Sasso massif of Italy as well as in the Apennines, is being shown on Monday, Feb. 17, at the Movieplex cinema in L’Aquila.
De Marchi, an engineer by profession, left Bologna at one point in his life to travel in the retinue of Margaret of Austria, imperial governor of Flanders as well as perpetual governor of the Farnese States of Abruzzo, who financed the climb. It was an epic feat for his time: reaching a peak for the curiosity of climbing what he believed to be the highest mountain in Italy.
Produced by Visioni Future, with direction by Luca Cococcetta and screenplay by Marco Zaccarelli, the film set and shot at nearly 3,000 meters above sea level sees actor Massimo Poggio, a passionate mountaineer, in the role of the protagonist, give a detailed and meticulous chronicle of the feat, taking the viewer back to that first great feat that anticipated mountaineering by 213 years, officially opened as a sporting discipline by the ascent of Mont Blanc in the summer of 1786. In the film, however, the absolute star is the Gran Sasso, with spectacular images and no studio-shot scenes.
In addition to the narration of the feat, the film includes a documentary part by experts, such as the well-known mountaineer Hervé Barmasse and Mario Tozzi, a researcher and science popularizer.
Source: Mount Horn – the film
