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Rai Radiotelivisione Italiana
Directed by: Ermanno Olmi
Featuring: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli
A painterly and 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 its 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.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
Italian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Bergamasque PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Television Program, Q&A, Interview, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree, an hour-long episode of The South Bank Show from 1981, featuring an interview with Ermanno Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shot
- New program featuring cast and crew discussing the film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016
- Archival interviews with Ermanno Olmi
- Trailer
- An essay by film critic Deborah Young
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Release Credits
Producer: Issa Clubb
Artwork: F. Ron Miller
Release Notes on Restoration
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
The Tree of Wooden Clogs is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Supervised by director Ermanno Olmi, this new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on an ARRISCAN film scanner. The restoration was undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna Italy, from the 35mm original camera negative. The original monaural soundtrack was remastered from a 35mm soundtrack print.