La passione di Erto

Erto a small village perched on the side of a valley in the Italian Alps In the late 1950s the Vajont Dam at the time the tallest in the world was built into this steep valley Just a few years later in 1963 a massive landslide spilled into the dams artificial lake causing the dams reservoir to overflow The massive wave that followed left nearly 2000 people dead The inhabitants of Erto have reenacted the Passion of the Christ year after year since time immemorial continuing their tradition even after the tragedy Once a year on the night of Good Friday a Christ from Erto is betrayed condemned and crucified as History marches forward with its constructions and destructions its victims and survivors and its Calvaries both real and imagined