The Tree of Wooden Clogs
The Tree of Wooden Clogs ★★★½ L'Albero Degli Zoccoli 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. 185m/C VHS, DVD . IT Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoll, Antonio Ferrari; D: Ermanno Olmi; W: Ermanno Olmi; C: Ermanno Olmi. Cannes ‘78: Film; N.Y. Film Critics ‘79: Foreign Film.
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