Ermanno Olmi Movies

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

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

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...

A documentary showing workmen erecting one of the pylons and stringing up three cables which will eventually reach to Milan.

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

Documentary about Italian film director Ermanno Olmi, with emphasis on "The Tree of Wooden Clogs".

Boys struggle to talk to girls in this lovely Olmi short film for TV.

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

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

The laboratory tests and complex work involved in constructing the dam in the Lei Valley are described in detail to give an idea of the complexity of...

The story of the Stura River, bent by human ingenuity. The disorderly course of the river and the dam, resembling a 200-meter-long concave hand, are...

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

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...

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

A lyrical documentary about the fundamentally harmful nature of money.

Alpe Devero, December 1953: employees of the Edisonvolta electricity company gather to take part in skiing competitions held in the picturesque...

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...

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

Nino gives flowers to girls passing by.