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A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life, Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo. Filming on an abandoned farm for four months, Olmi adapted neorealist techniques to tell his story, enlisting local people to live as their own ancestors had, speaking in their native dialect on locations with which they were intimately familiar. Through the cycle of seasons, of back-breaking labor, love and marriage, birth and death, faith and superstition, Olmi naturalistically evokes an existence very close to nature, one that celebrates it's beauty, humor, and simplicity but also acknowledges the feudal cruelty that governs it. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1978, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is at once intimate in scale and epic in scope a towering, heart-stirring work of humanist filmmaking.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
Product Details
Actors: Luigi Ornaghi, Giuseppe Brignoli, Teresa Brescianini
Directors: Ermanno Olmi
Format: Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
Unrated
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: February 14, 2017
Run Time: 186 minutes
Special Features
New 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi New intoduction by filmmaker Mike Leigh Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree, an hour-long 1981 episode of The South Bank Show, featuring an interview with Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shot New program featuring cast and crew discussing the film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016 Interviews with Olmi from 1978 and 2008 Trailer
Cast & Crew
Luigi Omaghi Batisti
Teresa Brescianini Widow Runk
Giuseppe Brignoli Grandpa Anselmo
Omar Brignoli Minek
Antonio Ferrari Tuni
Francesca Moriggi Batistina
Carlo Rota Peppino
Technical Credits
Ermanno Olmi Director,Cinematographer,Editor,Screenwriter
Enrico Tovaglieri Art Director
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