Film director Mario Fantin: biography, career, and where to

Kilimandjaro, Monarca Africano

Mario Fantin

In the spirit of a 'mountaineering safari', four Italians fly to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya and a compulsory base for both hunters of the great reserves and climbers of the great African mountains. Crossed the land of the Masai, rich in game, they, in fact, climb, in four days, up to the top of Kibo, the crater off that, with its 5895 meters, is the highest point of Kilimandjaro and all Africa. After two days of descent, they finally enter the Serengeti National Park, inside the vast crater of the Ngorongoro.

Kilimandjaro, Monarca Africano

1960

Preludio Alpino Al K2

Mario Fantin

With Preludio alpino al K2 we see the preparation for the Italian expedition to the second highest peak in the world. The men who would make history meet on Plateau Rosa, to work together among those spectacular peaks. It was also a dress rehearsal for Fantin, who had never ventured so high up with a movie camera. (Andrea Meneghelli)

Preludio Alpino Al K2

1954

Yucai, Montagna Degli Incas

Mario Fantin

We climb again to high altitudes with breathtaking landscapes in Yucay, montagna degli Incas (11 summits over 5,000 metres high in southern Peru, an expedition organized by the CAI of Como) (Andrea Meneghelli)

Yucai, Montagna Degli Incas

1958

Costa D’avorio

Mario Fantin

Costa d’Avorio immerses us in an entirely different scenario [from Fantin's previous film] and gives us an up-close look at another one of Fantin’s interests: ethnography, which here focuses on ritual dances encountered in each village (the expedition was funded by Augusto Fantoni, the Italian king of spring mattresses). (Andrea Meneghelli)

Costa D’avorio

1965