The End, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and written with Rasmus Heisterberg, is a post-apocalyptic story about a wealthy family who find refuge in an underground bunker after surviving an environmental apocalypse.
The music for The End - composed by Joshua Schmidt, lyrics by Oppenheimer – is a tribute to the golden age of Hollywood and a heartfelt hymn to self-acceptance, love, the ability to change and everything that makes us human.
The world has ended. Humanity, perhaps, has not. In an underground bunker redecorated as a luxury home, Mother (Tilda Swinton), Father (Michael Shannon) and Son (George MacKay) live and survive, trying to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to small daily rituals. The arrival of a girl from the outside (Moses Ingram) disrupts the delicate balance of this apparent family idyll.
An unusual location in Italy provided the backdrop for The End: after filming in Ireland, the crew and cast moved to Sicily, to the hamlet of Raffo in Petralia Soprana (province of Palermo). The production settled here for several weeks in spring 2023, using the caves of the salt mine as the set for the bunker where the protagonists live.
"We visited 15 mines before choosing the most beautiful salt mine in the world in Petralia Soprana, Sicily, where we spent weeks filming thousands of metres below ground!" said the director about the film's location.
The walls of the mine in this imposing and majestic complex, with some of the largest tunnels and caves in Europe, are embroidered with circular lines and screwholes left by the extraction cutter which raked salt from the rock, making it a unique environment.
The End has the support of MIC through the Minority Coproduction fund and of the Sicilia Film Commission. Dorje Film (Italy) co-produces, with producers from Denmark, Germany and Ireland.
The End, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and written with Rasmus Heisterberg, is a post-apocalyptic story about a wealthy family who find refuge in an underground bunker after surviving an environmental apocalypse.
The music for The End - composed by Joshua Schmidt, lyrics by Oppenheimer – is a tribute to the golden age of Hollywood and a heartfelt hymn to self-acceptance, love, the ability to change and everything that makes us human.
The world has ended. Humanity, perhaps, has not. In an underground bunker redecorated as a luxury home, Mother (Tilda Swinton), Father (Michael Shannon) and Son (George MacKay) live and survive, trying to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to small daily rituals. The arrival of a girl from the outside (Moses Ingram) disrupts the delicate balance of this apparent family idyll.
An unusual location in Italy provided the backdrop for The End: after filming in Ireland, the crew and cast moved to Sicily, to the hamlet of Raffo in Petralia Soprana (province of Palermo). The production settled here for several weeks in spring 2023, using the caves of the salt mine as the set for the bunker where the protagonists live.
"We visited 15 mines before choosing the most beautiful salt mine in the world in Petralia Soprana, Sicily, where we spent weeks filming thousands of metres below ground!" said the director about the film's location.
The walls of the mine in this imposing and majestic complex, with some of the largest tunnels and caves in Europe, are embroidered with circular lines and screwholes left by the extraction cutter which raked salt from the rock, making it a unique environment.
The End has the support of MIC through the Minority Coproduction fund and of the Sicilia Film Commission. Dorje Film (Italy) co-produces, with producers from Denmark, Germany and Ireland.
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The world has ended. Humanity, perhaps, has not. In an underground bunker redecorated as a luxury home, Mother, Father and Son live and survive, trying to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to small daily rituals. The arrival of a girl from the outside disrupts the delicate balance of this apparent family idyll.
