Ermanno Olmi Movies

A young man enters a brothel and sees a staged narration of a Chinese folk tale concerning a female pirate.

When a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon to be closed, an elderly priest must choose between...

A self-assured, middle-aged advertising executive has his life upset by an unforeseen accident.

Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vittorio discovers that Kate has rejoined a circus...

Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the...

Broadcast on RAI television in 1967, this charming featurette about a teenage boy’s first crush on a girl reveals director Ermanno Olmi’s...

In the 18th Century, in Bohemia, a government surveyor meet a priest during a lunch and remained intrigued by him. Years later, in a stony valley,...

An unusual and evocative journey through the city of Milan at the beginning of the 80's, among fashion, art and everyday life.

Laura, a woman of a certain age with full grown children who, by all indications should be leading a great life, but actually, she appears to have...

Italy, 1955, 8', Color Director Ermanno Olmi Production Società Edisonvolta Synopsis From the Gabriele D'Annunzio poem with the same...

This documentary shows the construction of a high-altitude dam by the Sabbioni Glacier, and the daily struggles of the workers, now anxious for the...

The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its...

Vittorio De Seta's documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959.

Story of a retired old man who is learning what to do with himself.

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

A conversation between a salesman of calendars and his costumer, who makes him several questions before considering buying one of his offers.