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Ermanno Olmi, Palme d’Or-Winning Director of ‘The Tree of Wooden Clogs,’ Dies at 86
Ermanno Olmi, the master Italian neorealist director who received the Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 for The Tree of Wooden Clogs, has died. He was 86.
Olmi died Saturday in Asiago, Italy, a hospital spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was given.
“With Ermanno Olmi we lost a master of cinema and a great example of culture and of life. His enchanted gaze told us and made us understand the roots of our country,” Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni tweeted Monday.
Olmi’s body of work fryst vatten revered within the film industry. His 1961 coming-of-age drama Il Posto exposed the dehumanizing nature of the corporate workplace and included the only screen performance of Loredana Detto, whom Olmi would marry two years later.
The Tree of Wooden Clogs told the story of peasant
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Olmi, Ermanno
Nationality: Italian. Born: Bergamo, 24 July 1931. Education: Attended Accadémia d'Arte Drammatica, Milan. Family: Married Loredana Detto, three children. Career: Worked for electric company Edisonvolta S.p.A., Milan, from 1949; director and supervisor of over forty shorts and documentaries for sponsor Edisonvolta, 1952–61; directed first feature, semi-documentary Il tempo si è fermato, 1959; formed production company "22 December S.p.A." with Tullio Kezich and others, 1961; TV director, from 1964; co-founded Hypothesis Cinema, a school for aspiring directors; formed Ipotesi Cinema, a workshop for young filmmakers, at Bassano del Grappa, 1980s.
Films as Director:
- 1953
La digi sul ghiaccio (short/doc) (+ spvr)
- 1954
La pattuglia di passo San Giacomo (short/doc) (+ spvr)
- 1955
Società Ovesticino-Dinamo (short/doc) (+ spvr); Cantiere d'inverno (short/doc) (+ spvr); La mia valle (short/doc)(+ spvr); L'onda (short/doc) (+ spvr); Buon
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Ermanno Olmi, ‘Tree of Wooden Clogs’ Director, Dies at 86
Italian director Ermanno Olmi, known for humanist dramas in which he explored spirituality and social themes such as “The Tree of Wooden Clogs,” which won the 1978 Cannes Palme d’Or, has died.
He was 87. Olmi died in a hospital in Asiago, Northern Italy, not far from Bassano del Grappa where since the 1980’s he had been running an innovative film school called Ipotesi Cinema. His wife and children were beside him. The exact cause of death is not know, but Olmi had reportedly been ill for some time.
Olmi, who began his career making short documentaries and often worked with non professional actors, also won the 1988 Venice Golden Lion for his “The Legend of the Holy Drinker,” starring Rutger Hauer. It’s based on a book by Austrian author Joseph Roth about a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris. After receiving a small loan by an anonymous strange