The Lady (or Signora) of the title is a mysterious matron who lives in a crumbling mansion. Read More »
Tag Archives: Ermanno Olmi
Il Posto (1961) Ermanno Olmi, Sandro Panseri, Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich
Domenico and Antonietta are two suburban Italian youths who meet while seeking “a job for life” from a big city corporation. Read More »
Keep Walking AKA Cammina, cammina (1982) Ermanno Olmi, Alberto Fumagalli, Antonio Cucciarrè, Eligio Martellucci
The assuming of responsibility by individuals, the use of science for man and not against him Read More »
Greenery Will Bloom Again AKA Torneranno i prati (2014) Ermanno Olmi, Claudio Santamaria, Camillo Grassi, Niccolò Senni
World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. Read More »
The Fiances (1963) Ermanno Olmi, Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini
In the industrial North, Giovanni is a skilled factory worker offered a promotion if he’ll go to Sicily for 18 months to assist in a new department. Read More »
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) Ermanno Olmi, Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger Read More »
The Profession of Arms (2001) Ermanno Olmi, Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Ratchkov
The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »
E venne un uomo (1965) Ermanno Olmi, Rod Steiger, Adolfo Celi, Giorgo Fortunato
Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Read More »
La circostanza (1973) Ermanno Olmi, Ada Savelli, Gaetano Porro, Raffaella Bianchi, Drama
The bourgeois family Olmi observes here is caught in a process of disintegration that hardly requires the promptings of a languid summer’s minor crisis. Read More »
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) Ermanno Olmi, Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Drama, History
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. Read More »
Cantando dietro i paraventi / Singing Behind Screens (2003) Ermanno Olmi, Bud Spencer, Jun Ichikawa, Sally Ming Zeo Ni, Drama, History, Music, War
A young Western student, of unusual candor, due to a misunderstanding of address, is led to a theater-brothel for customers inclined to strong and transgressive emotions. Read More »
I recuperanti / The Scavengers (1970) Ermanno Olmi, Antonio Lunardi, Andreino Carli, Oreste Costa, Drama
After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job Read More »
Un certo giorno / One Fine Day (1968) Ermanno Olmi, Del Vita, Lidia Fuortes, Vitaliano Damioli, Drama
Centochiodi / One Hundred Nails (2007) Ermanno Olmi, Raz Degan, Luna Bendandi, Andrea Lanfredi, Drama
Il Segreto del Bosco Vecchio / The Secret of the Old Woods (1993) Ermanno Olmi, Paolo Villaggio, Giulio Brogi, Pietro Berton, Family, Fantasy
It tells the story of a general who is about to cut down an old forest for the sake of financial gain, but discovers that the forest is inhabited by invisible spirits.
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