Ermanno Olmi Movies

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...

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...

A charming featurette about a teenage boy’s first crush and his adventures on New Year's Eve.

Visual illustration of D'Annunzio's poem of the same name read by Giorgio Albertazzi.

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

With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A...

After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges...

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian...

On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife...

The activities of the Edison colonies in Cesenatico, Marina di Massa, and Suna. A few animated sequences and the narration of a child describing the...

The story of Michelino, who enrolls in Edisonvolta's electrical engineering school and thus opens himself up to the future.

A weekend in the mountains.

World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story...

Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her....

A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two.

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive...

Next to the Venice of canals, palaces and squares, in Marghera there is a modern Venice made up of factories and industries.

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

An all-enveloping darkness. Suddenly, a child's voice, frightened, questioning, pierces the darkness... The first flickering rays of light begin to...