Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi (born July 24, 1931 in Bergamo, Lombardy) was a renowned Italian film director. Olmi's films have been described as "humanistic and reflective, portraying everyday people in particular landscapes and locations, while at the same time being charged with social... Read full bio →
Torneranno i prati
World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: the peaceful mountains suddenly become a place where men die.
Centochiodi
An Italian professor seeks refuge in the quiet, peaceful ruins of an old building.
Cantando dietro i paraventi
A young man enters a brothel and sees a staged narration of a Chinese folk tale concerning a female pirate.
Il mestiere delle armi
The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in the war of Charles V against the Pope, in the first half of 1500.
La leggenda del santo bevitore
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
L'albero degli zoccoli
On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school.
I fidanzati
Un operaio milanese si trasferisce in Sicilia per lavoro. La malinconia ed il senso di solitudine e straniamento sono per lui insostenibili.
Il posto
Domenico and Antonietta are two suburban Italian youths who meet while seeking "a job for life" from a big city corporation.
Il tempo si è fermato
Two workers at an isolated Alpine dam grow closer when an avalanche traps them in their hut without power or contact.