Giro 88 | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

00:00 The Giro d'Italia has been writing human dramas for well over a century.

00:03 We think of Charlie Gale in 1956, riding through a blizzard on Monte Bondone to claim an improbable

00:09 Maglia Rosa. Or six years later, when half the peloton abandoned on the Passo Role.

00:15 However, one stage in particular still resonates today. Stage 14 of the 1988 Giro and the Passo di Gavia.

00:24 Because Gavia is not just a mountain. It is a historical, almost metaphysical place.

00:34 We spoke to riders whose careers were made on that mountain.

00:40 So I do a little of this and a snowball. Like I cleared an inch or two of snow off the top of my head.

00:48 And to some whose careers needed to be rebuilt.

00:52 For two years, I've been going through a psychological process. I had to rebuild everything.

00:59 This is a story of a stage so extreme that it would be unthinkable in today's cycling.

01:04 From the riders themselves and from the people who chronicled their suffering.

01:08 A race, a stage that slipped out of hand. It became uncontrollable.

01:12 I saw my colleague Elario Biondi fall twice on the bike in front of me.

01:17 Patron del Tongo, al mio fianco, urla "Mio Dio, muore! Franco muore! Fate qualcosa!"

01:26 [Music]