Ermanno Olmi Movies

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

A dialogue between director Ermanno Olmi and film critic Federico Pontiggia about Olmi's cinema and poetry.

Vincenzo reads a Beat poem during the years of the cultural revolution.

Editing and reworking of television, film, and photographic archive material relating to Paul VI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1964, carried out...

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

A three-part TV film focusing on the emotional dynamics within young couples.

Milan, one winter in the early sixties. Valeria, a free young woman who usually goes from one man to another, falls in love with Giampiero. This...

The Lady (or Signora) of the title is a mysterious matron who lives in a crumbling mansion. Six catering trainees are brought to the castle upon its...

A documentary made with archive footage and photographs alternating with recent film footage; the choice of texts is taken from Mario Rigoni Stern,...

At the end of the war, he was hired by Edison and in 1951 he made a film on all the important hydroeletrical plants built in that period. In the...

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

After a big flood some Calabrian children are sent to Milan.

An accidental interruption of the S. Giacomo Electric Line requires the intervention of a team of specialized technicians. The short movie follows...

Franco and Antonio recount how they met and how their “religious” love for science was born.

Gigliola discovers, during the trial of her boyfriend accused of theft, that she loves him more as a criminal.

Grigio was a small stray dog, a mongrel for generations. He never had a real owner. For a while he followed one of those couples of itinerant...

A lyrical documentary about the fundamentally harmful nature of money.

Images of the construction of the Sabbioni dam, which submerged a glacier tongue to build a hydroelectric power plant.

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...

Italian maestro Ermanno Olmi tells the tale of the journey of the Magi in this lyrical odyssey. The film focuses on a wise man who interprets his...