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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.

The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Families -- Italy -- Drama.

Farm life -- Italy -- Drama.

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.

Criterion collection ; 854.

The Criterion collection ; 854

2 videodiscs (187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Director-approved two-DVD special edition.

disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.

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.

Director of photography and editor, Ermanno Olmi ; music, J.S. Bach, performed on organ by Fernando Germani.

Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli, Carlo Rota, Pasqualina Brolis, Massimo Fratus.

DVD, NTSC; region 1; full frame (4:3 presentation); Dolby digital 1.0.

Bergamasque with optional Italian soundtrack and optional English subtitles.

Olmi, Ermanno, 1931-2018,, film director, screenwriter, director of photography, editor of moving image work.

Ornaghi, Luigi, actor.

Moriggi, Francesca, actor.

Brignoli, Omar, actor.

Ferrari, Antonio, actor.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, composer (expression)

Germani, Fernando, 1906-1998,, organist.

Radiotelevisione italiana, .

Ital Noleggio Cinematografico, .

Gruppo produzione cinema (Milan, Italy), .

Criterion Collection (Firm), .

Additional title:

English title from container and disc label: Tree of wooden clogs

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