Ermanno Olmi Filmes

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

A dialogue between director Ermanno Olmi and film critic Federico Pontiggia about Olmi's cinema and poetry.

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...

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian...

An unusual and evocative journey through the city of Milan at the beginning of the 80's, among fashion, art and everyday life.

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive...

Italy, 1955, 8', Color Director Ermanno Olmi Production Società Edisonvolta Synopsis From the Gabriele D'Annunzio poem with the same...

A weekend in the mountains.

Broadcast on RAI television in 1967, this charming featurette about a teenage boy’s first crush on a girl reveals director Ermanno Olmi’s...

A short film made for "Venice 70 - Future Reloaded". A person prepares a film for screening.

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...

At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago,...

A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two.

Story of a retired old man who is learning what to do with himself.

On a northern Italian farm, Batistì and his wife decide to send their son Minec to school, sacrificing his help in the fields but hoping to...

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

An all-enveloping darkness. Suddenly, a child's voice, frightened, questioning, pierces the darkness... The first flickering rays of light begin to...

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...

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...

In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal...