The Tree of Wooden Clogs [videorecording] / Ermanno Olmi

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Ermanno Olmi

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Italian Summary language: Italian Series: The Tree of Wooden ClogsPublication details: Italy RAI Radiotelevisione ItalianaDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. x min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Uniform titles:

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

LOC classification:

PN1997 .T448 1978

Summary: A sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian peasant life, Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs focuses on four families working for one landowner on an estate in the province of Bergamo. Filming on an abandoned farm, Olmi adapted neorealist techniques to tell his story, enlisting local people to live as their ancestors had and speak in their native dialect on locations with which they were intimately familiar. Through the cycle of seasons, of backbreaking labor, love and marriage, birth and death, faith and superstition, Olmi lovingly evokes an existence very close to nature, celebrating its beauty, humor, and simplicity but also acknowledging the feudal cruelty that governs it. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1978, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is intimate in scale but epic in scope - a towering, heart-stirring work of humanist filmmaking.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .T448 1978	Available		003739

Contains the following: Drama, History.

A sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian peasant life, Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs focuses on four families working for one landowner on an estate in the province of Bergamo. Filming on an abandoned farm, Olmi adapted neorealist techniques to tell his story, enlisting local people to live as their ancestors had and speak in their native dialect on locations with which they were intimately familiar. Through the cycle of seasons, of backbreaking labor, love and marriage, birth and death, faith and superstition, Olmi lovingly evokes an existence very close to nature, celebrating its beauty, humor, and simplicity but also acknowledging the feudal cruelty that governs it. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1978, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is intimate in scale but epic in scope - a towering, heart-stirring work of humanist filmmaking.

Blu-ray; monaural

Language audio: Bergamasque (Italian Dialect)
Language subtitles: English

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