Exposed to Dreams
Exposed to Dreams
Alessandro Filippini, Marianna Zanatta
Italy / 2012 / 24'
Exposed to Dreams
Alessandro Filippini, Marianna Zanatta
Italy / 2012 / 24'

On Everest in Spring 2012, Simone Moro attempted a feat which had never been completed before: the concatenation of the highest mountain in the world with the nearby Lhotse. The film is the story of how and why the mountaineer from Bergamo, famous for his winter ascents of eight-thousanders, on this occasion decided to abandon the attempt when he was already at an altitude of over 7500 metres, when faced with an infinite queue of mountaineers heading towards the south face who refused to let him pass. It is also an unforgiving portrait of what has happened to mountaineering in the Himalayas in our times: is it still an adventure as it was in the years of the first expeditions, or nothing more than a new form of extreme tourism?

Directors

Alessandro Filippini

Alessandro Filippini graduated in Philosophy at the Statale University in Milan and is a professional journalist. He began work with Tuttosport, then becoming deputy editor of the Gazzetta dello Sport until 2011. He has always dealt with Olympic sports and mountaineering. He is one of the authors of the Grande Enciclopedia dell'Olimpiade for Motta Editore and was responsible for the Mountaineering entry for the Treccani encyclopaedia. In 2012 he was a member of the jury for the Piolet d'Or.

Marianna Zanatta

After ten years in a leading American company in the outdoor sector, she decided to develop freelance sports marketing projects, managing athletes of the calibre of Simone Moro and working as a company consultant. In 2012 she contributed towards the book “La Voce del Ghiaccio” by Simone Moro and directed her first documentary film.

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