L'albero degli zoccoli / un film di Ermanno Olmi ; una produzione RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana, e Ital Noleggio Cinematografico ; realizzazione G.P.C., Gruppo Produzione Cinema-Milano ; un film scritto e diretto da Ermanno Olmi.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
2 videodiscs (186 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Container of (work): Albero degli zoccoli (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Albero degli zoccoli (Motion picture). Italian.
Notes:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978. New 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation at L'Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. 1.37:1 aspect ratio. New 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation at L'Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi. Special features: new video introduction by Mike Leigh; Ermanno Olmi, the Roots of the Tree, an hourlong episode of the South Bank Show from 1981, featuring an interview with Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shot; new program featuring cast and crew discussing film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016; archival interviews with Olmi; trailer; essay by film critic Deborah Young. Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli, Carlo Rota, Pasqualina Brolis, Massimo Fratus.
Contents:
disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.
Summary:
A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life that lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo.
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