The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)3h07
Drama
Director Ermanno Olmi
Also directed Il Posto, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Greenery Will Bloom Again, and 65 more
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 Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti--in an act of desperation--puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog.
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Cast
- Luigi Ornaghi
- Francesca Moriggi
- Omar Brignoli
- Antonio Ferrari
- Teresa Brescianini
- Giuseppe Brignoli
- Carlo Rota
- Pasqualina Brolis
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