Val di Sole, in western Trentino, is one of the most attractive and renowned valleys in Italy. Surrounded by mountains rising to an altitude of 3,000m, it affords a varied scenery of high peaks and dense forests. These forests and their timber have always been a source of wealth and work the inhabitants of the valley. The documentary, set in the Commune of Ossana in the fifties, describes in detail the work and various ways of transporting the “sort”, wood for burning, down to the valley.
Director
Claudio Redolfi
Claudio Redolfi began making amateur films in 1965. In the 1990s, he opened his own production studio and made a range of tourism/sports and culture/education documentaries. One of his most evocative was entitled “L’erede di Moresana” about life on a mountain farmstead in Valle di Sole. He has presented a vast array of films at the TrentoFilmfestival since the 1970s; some of his main entries include “Lettera al nonno”, “Evoluzione”, “Caserando”, “Guardandomi indietro”, ‘L’ombra”, “Un venerdi verso le tre”, and “El salvin”.