The Tree of Wooden Clogs Movie Review 1978

Epic view of the lives of four peasant families working on an estate in turn of the century Northern Italy. The title comes from the shoes the peasants wear. When a young boy breaks a shoe, his father risks punishment by cutting down one of his landlord's trees to make a new pair of clogs. Slow moving and beautiful, from former industrial filmmaker Olmi. In Italian with English subtitles.

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on VHS
Running time 185 minutes.
Originally from Italian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Family Ties, Farm Livin', Italy

Screenplay

Ermanno Olmi

Cast

Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoll, Antonio Ferrari

Cinematography

Ermanno Olmi

Director

Ermanno Olmi

Producer

Gaumont, New Yorker Films

Awards

Cannes 1978: Film; N.Y. Film Critics 1979: Foreign Film.