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Winner of the Palme d Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, Ermanno Olmi s The Tree of the Wooden Clogs is an epic portrait of peasant life in late nineteenth century Italy.
Focussing on four families working and living on the farm of a landowner in the Bergamo region of northern Italy, Olmi presents a year in their lives, charting their daily activities and the natural flow of existence: birth, marriage, death, and the trials and tribulations in between.
Shot on an abandoned farmhouse in Bergamo, The Tree of Wooden Clogs utilised locals of the region to its characters and had them speak in their Bergamasque dialect. The end results are truly remarkable, the apotheosis of Italian cinema s neo-realism movement.
Special Features
- Brand-new 4K restoration by The Film Foundation
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition presentations
- Original Bergamasque and Italian mono soundtracks (uncompressed LPCM on the Blu-ray)
- Optional English subtitles
- Introduction by director Ermanno Olmi
- Two interviews with Olmi from the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, recorded either side of his Palme d Or win
- Interview with Olmi from Italian film programme Appuntamenti con il cinema
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin
- Arrow Academy
- 186 mins approx.
- 15
- Italian
- 2
- Arrow Academy
- Ermanno Olmi
- Luigi Ornaghi
- Francesca Moriggi
- Omar Brignoli
English
- 2
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Arrow Films
Winner of the Palme d Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, Ermanno Olmi s The Tree of the Wooden Clogs is an epic portrait of peasant life in late nineteenth century Italy.
Focussing on four families working and living on the farm of a landowner in the Bergamo region of northern Italy, Olmi presents a year in their lives, charting their daily activities and the natural flow of existence: birth, marriage, death, and the trials and tribulations in between.
Shot on an abandoned farmhouse in Bergamo, The Tree of Wooden Clogs utilised locals of the region to its characters and had them speak in their Bergamasque dialect. The end results are truly remarkable, the apotheosis of Italian cinema s neo-realism movement.
Special Features
- Brand-new 4K restoration by The Film Foundation
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition presentations
- Original Bergamasque and Italian mono soundtracks (uncompressed LPCM on the Blu-ray)
- Optional English subtitles
- Introduction by director Ermanno Olmi
- Two interviews with Olmi from the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, recorded either side of his Palme d Or win
- Interview with Olmi from Italian film programme Appuntamenti con il cinema
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin
- Arrow Academy
- 186 mins approx.
- 15
- Italian
- 2
- Arrow Academy
- Ermanno Olmi
- Luigi Ornaghi
- Francesca Moriggi
- Omar Brignoli
English
- 2
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A very unique and absolutely gorgeous film
Almost like a documentary without a narrator.
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An insight into rural life in Italy in the past
Documentaristic, naturalistic and at times harsh, just like the reality of the people it depicts. A rare breed of films that one would probably not see in a cinema nowadays … The plot is also minimal it can be said. Still an unmissable film. It is difficult to say much about this film apart that it really has to be experienced. When it comes to the release itself, the picture and sound are just what is expected to be from Arrow, faithful just like it should be. Now, when it comes to the extras, they are good, they give an insight into the director, yet given the remarkable way the film was made with unprofessional actors, it would have been even better if at least some of them were found to say a word about their experience in making this truly deserved winner of the Palme D’Or.Â
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