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The tree of wooden clogs [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Ermanno Olmi.

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Criterion Collection, 2017.

Farm life -- Italy -- 19th century -- Drama.

Bergamo (Italy : Province) -- Rural conditions -- 19th century -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 854.

Alternate title:

Albero degli zoccoli [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-Approved two-dvd special ed.

2 videodiscs (186 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978.

Special features: New 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation at L'Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi ; Ermanno Olmi: the roots of the tree, an hour long episode of the South Bank Show from 1981, 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 film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016 ; archival interviews with Olmi ; trailer ; PLUS: an essay by film critic Deborah Young.

In the original Bergamasque (Italian dialect) with an alternate Italian language track with optional English subtitles.

Director, Ermanno Olmi.

Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli and Antonio Ferrari.

"A 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."--Container.

Olmi, Ermanno, 1931-

Ornaghi, Luigi.

Moriggi, Francesca.

Brignoli, Omar.

Ferrari, Antonio.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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