The tree of wooden clogs = L'albero degli zoccoli

The tree of wooden clogs L'albero degli zoccoli

DVD - 2016

A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life that lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo.

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Subjects
Families > Italy > Drama.
Farm life > Italy > Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2016]
Language
Italian
English
Corporate Authors
Radiotelevisione italiana, Ital Noleggio Cinematografico, Gruppo produzione cinema (Milan, Italy)
Corporate Authors
Radiotelevisione italiana (production company), Ital Noleggio Cinematografico, Gruppo produzione cinema (Milan, Italy)
Other Authors
Ermanno Olmi, 1931-2018 (film director), Luigi Ornaghi (actor), Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari
Edition
Directgor-approved two-DVD special edition ; special edition ; full screen
Item Description
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978.
New 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation at L'Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray.
1.37:1 aspect ratio.
New 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation at L'Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi.
Special features: new video introduction by Mike Leigh; Ermanno Olmi, the Roots of the Tree, an hourlong 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; essay by film critic Deborah Young.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, NTSC; region 1; full frame (4:3 presentation); Dolby digital 1.0.
Production Credits
Director of photography and editor, Ermanno Olmi ; music, J.S. Bach, performed on organ by Fernando Germani.
ISBN
9781681432199
  • disc 1. Feature film
  • disc 2. Special features.
Review by Library Journal Review

Over the course of a year, several tenant farming families in fin de siècle Italy work, eat, play, procreate-but mostly work-in Ermanno Olmi's paean to the peasant life, in which the lion's share of the harvest goes to the landowners. Fittingly told in an unflashy style without professional actors, the largely plotless story details rituals from pig slaughter to courtship in leisurely fashion that paradoxically proves involving while taxing patience. Restored to immaculate condition, this lauded film generally earns its considerable status. [See Trailers, LJ 9/1/16] © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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