Fulvio Wetzl

There is a city in Italy on the coast surrounded by the mountains called La Spezia with an area code of 0187, which has been the scene of numerous UFO sightings. The peak of sightings dates back to the 70s: the reports include strange lights in the sky, disappearances and unknown presences in the woods. In the present day, four young people arrive looking for answers, they venture into the places that were the scene of these disturbing events.

The double meaning in french of film title MINEURS resume the sense of the film: mineurs as children and as mineworkers in the coalmines. Italy, at the beginning of the sixties. In a little village in Lucanie, little region in the south, four children live in a situation of absolute poverty, but with their plays in the street succeed in living in happiness. In the air the menace and, in the same time, the hope of a telephonic convocation by their relatives, already at work in coalmines in Belgie, in the mine district of Limburg. Two of our children leave with their families, to reach the numerous Italian community of Flandres. The children will have a lot of problems, in the school and with the language, to integrate in a hostile ambient, but, at the end the will succeed.

Francesca, a university researcher, moves to Liguria to study ancient 19th-century military fortifications. The site, set within the natural landscape of Monte Vello, is fascinating yet shrouded in mystery; since the 1970s, it has been linked to numerous reports of UFO sightings, accidents, and disappearances.

Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror films. Rorret dates women from the audience and then kills them, taking sadistic pleasure from their expressions of terror. This film is apparently a well-filmed homage to "Peeping Tom", with nods to "Psycho" and "Strangers on a Train".