Ermanno Olmi Movies

Documentary about Italian film director Ermanno Olmi, with emphasis on "The Tree of Wooden Clogs".

Laura, a woman of a certain age with full grown children who, by all indications should be leading a great life, but actually, she appears to have...

Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is...

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

It tells the story of a general who is about to cut down an old forest for the sake of financial gain, but discovers that the forest is inhabited by...

A conversation between a salesman of calendars and his costumer, who makes him several questions before considering buying one of his offers.

When a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon to be closed, an elderly priest must choose between...

At the end of the war, he was hired by Edison and in 1951 he made a film on all the important hydroeletrical plants built in that period. In the...

An Italian professor seeks refuge in the quiet, peaceful ruins of an old building.

Italian maestro Ermanno Olmi tells the tale of the journey of the Magi in this lyrical odyssey. The film focuses on a wise man who interprets his...

A self-assured, middle-aged advertising executive has his life upset by an unforeseen accident.

This documentary shows the construction of a high-altitude dam by the Sabbioni Glacier, and the daily struggles of the workers, now anxious for the...

A young man shares his fantasies with a young girl who is already on the threshold of disillusion. Will she respond to him?

Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a...