Ermanno Olmi Movies

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

"Documentary, showing workmen erecting one of the pylons and stringing up three cables which will eventually reach to Milan." - BFI

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...

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

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...

Next to the Venice of canals, palaces and squares, in Marghera there is a modern Venice made up of factories and industries.

A weekend in the mountains.

After a big flood some Calabrian children are sent to Milan.