The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

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Written by Ermanno Olmi

Directed by Ermanno Olmi

Running Time: 190 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1978

Rating: 12 Certificate

Production Country: Italy/France

Filmed in Colour

Ermanno Olmi's Cannes-winning drama is set in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century, centred on four families of peasants who live in the same farm complex. As the seasons change, the film simply follows their toil, lives and traditions with the central motif the carving of a child's clog from a felled poplar tree. Using a completely amateur cast drawn from rural farms, Olmi's contemplative, elegiac film is a beautifully shot record of a vanished way of life.

Cast

Luigi OrnaghiBatistì
Francesca MoriggiBatistina
Omar BrignoliMinec
Antonio FerrariTuni
Teresa BrescianiniWidow Runk
Giuseppe BrignoliAnselmo
Image for Carlo RotaCarlo RotaPeppino
Pasqualina BrolisTeresina
Massimo FratusPierino
Francesca VillaAnnetta
Maria Grazia CaroliBettina
Battista TrevainiIl Finard
Giuseppina LangalelliLa Moglie Finarda
Lorenzo PedroniIl nonno Finard
Felice CerviUslì

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