STEEL LOVE

By Gianluca MONNIER

ROUGH CAT - as PROD

Documentary - Development 2023

A personal quest in a necropolis of steel.

    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Biography, Environmental
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Gianluca MONNIER
    • Producer(s)
    • Nicola BERNASCONI (ROUGH CAT)
    • Synopsis
    • Terni, the place of origin of the director's mother, is the Italian city of steel and Saint Valentine. Where it is said once laid an immense necropolis, one of Europe’s largest steelworks has been built. In this place full of striking contrasts, personal biography and anthropological investigations intertwine with the singing and disenchantment of a working-class rock band. And as a bathyscaphe, plunged into the abyss, returns from the past, a buried family truth begins to resurface.
    • Partners & financing
    • Project developed at EURODOC 22
      Broadcast involved: RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera (co-production)
      Co-production: in discussion (Italy)
      Development financing: secured (RSI, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Regional funds)
    • Production schedule
    • End of development: June 2023
      Production financing (first round): July - December 2023
      Production financing (second round): January - May 2024
      Start of principal photography: (plan A: October 2023 / plan B: Spring 2024)

    • Beginning of shooting
    • Oct 02, 2023
    • End of shooting
    • Aug 30, 2024