Ermanno Olmi is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Set Decoration, Costume Design and Cinematography Italien born on 24 july 1931 at Bergamo (Italie)
Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi participated to
25 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
1 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Director
, 2h50
Directed by Ermanno OlmiOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films about children,
Films about the labor movementActors Carlo RotaRating77%
Four peasant families working farms for the same landlord scrape out a meager existence in 1898 in the campaign around Bergamo. Over the course of a year, children are born, crops are planted, animals are slaughtered, couples are married, stories and prayers are exchanged in the families's shared farmhouse. Undercurrents of revolution are seen by the peasants but largely ignored, as a communist rabble-rouser gives a speech at a local fair and when a newlywed couple visit the big city of Milan and witness the arrest of political prisoners. When spring comes, one of the four families is forced off their land by the incensed landlord, and the remaining families watch them go, praying for them and recognizing their own fragile existence.