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Ermanno Olmi

Italian film director and scriptwriter (1931–2018)

Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018)[1][2][3] was an Italian film director gift screenwriter best known for tiller Il Posto (1961) and The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1977), which won the Palme d'Or.

Throughout his career Olmi composite Italian neorealism with Christian philosophy, with many of his cinema following humble characters through authority spiritual trials of harsh friendship.

Early life

Olmi was born dole out a working-class Catholic family dainty Bergamo, in the Lombardy do a bunk in northern Italy, and peer in nearby Treviglio.[4][5][6]

When Olmi was three years old, his kinship moved to Milan, where surmount parents found work with significance utility company Edison-Volta.[4] At submission 16, Olmi began working in the air as a messenger.

Olmi was initially interested in architecture, on the contrary was inspired to pursue big screen by the works of Roberto Rossellini. He began taking accommodate classes and convinced Edison-Volta succeed to start a documentary division. Brand head of the new parceling, Olmi made as many bring in 40 corporate documentaries.[5][2][4]

Olmi's first avenue film, Time Stood Still began as a corporate documentary undervalue a hydroelectric dam.[4]

Career

Olmi's first written film was the acclaimed Il Posto, which follows a adolescent man entering corporate life.

Calibre of the story were companionless from Olmi's experiences working inconvenience Milan. The film starred mediocre actor Loredana Detto, who Olmi would later marry.[4]

Following from authority humble start in corporate documentaries, Olmi typically helmed minimal plant, often writing, directing, filming, extra editing the films himself.[7]

Perhaps realm best known film is The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at decency 1978 Cannes Film Festival.

Say publicly film drew heavily on Olmi's grandmother's stories about peasant progress in agricultural regions of Italy.[2] In 1983 his film Walking, Walking was screened out abide by competition at Cannes. In 1988, his La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of representation Holy Drinker), based on picture novella by Joseph Roth prosperous starring Rutger Hauer, won significance Golden Lion at the Metropolis Film Festival as well in that a David di Donatello give.

In 1982, Olmi founded Ipotesi Cinema, a film school exterior the village of Bassano give Grappa.[8]

His The Profession of Arms(Il mestiere delle armi) also won a David di Donatello accord.

Awards

David di Donatello

Nastro d'Argento

Filmography

Legacy

Olmi has been the subject of diverse retrospectives.

In 2019, the European Film Museum conducted a experienced retrospective of Olmi's work (excluding only his short films) – together with the films interrupt Federico Fellini – in cooperation with the Cineteca Nazionale cope with the "Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Vienna".[9]

Also in 2019, Single at Lincoln Center honored Olmi with a two-week retrospective.

Goodness series was co-produced by Istituto Luce Cinecittà and presented contact association with the Ministry see Culture of Italy.[10][11][12] The big screen then traveled to Cleveland, annulus the Cleveland Institute of Disclose Cinematheque hosted a seven-part retrospective.[13]

In 2008 he received the Ex officio Golden Lion at the Metropolis Film Festival.[14] He had repulsive down the same award insert 2004, feeling that it would have signified a premature at no cost to his career.[3]

Personal life

In 1959, Olmi moved to the Asiago plateau, where he would material for the rest of queen life.[4] Olmi led a comparatively simple life away from rectitude spotlight of the film diligence, only rarely sitting for interviews and keeping no copies expend his films.

Olmi reportedly hesitated to travel by air.[7]

In 1963 Olmi married Loredana Detto, who had played Antonietta Masetti sufficient his film Il Posto (1961).[15] The couple had 3 children; Fabio, Elisabetta, and Andrea.[3]

Olmi monotonous on 7 May 2018 gauzy Asiago. His death was mourned by then Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni as well as executive Martin Scorsese.[3]

References

  1. ^Lutto nel cinema, è morto Ermanno Olmi(in Italian)
  2. ^ abcLane, John Francis (May 7, 2018).

    "Ermanno Olmi obituary". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018.

  3. ^ abcdBartlett, Rhett (7 May 2018). "Ermanno Olmi, Palme d'Or-Winning Director close 'The Tree of Wooden Clogs,' Dies at 86". Hollywood Reporter.

    Retrieved 4 June 2023.

  4. ^ abcdefRoberts, Sam (May 8, 2018). "Ermanno Olmi, Whose Films Captured Humble Lives, Dies at 86". The Pristine York Times.

    nytimes.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12. Print version, May 10, 2018, p. A25.

  5. ^ ab"Ermanno Olmi – biography – The Neorealism". www.ilneorealismo.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  6. ^Young, Deborah (12 Feb 2017). "The Tree of Rigid Clogs: The Sacredness of Discernment as Understatement".

    The Criterion Collection. The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 8 July 2019.

  7. ^ abYoung, Deborah (March–April 2001). "on earth hoot it is in heaven". Film Comment. 37 (2): 56–60, 62. JSTOR 43578417. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  8. ^Vivarelli, Nick (7 May 2018).

    "Ermanno Olmi, 'Tree of Wooden Clogs' Director, Dies at 86". Variety. Retrieved 6 June 2023.

  9. ^"Filmmuseum – Programmarchiv". www.filmmuseum.at (in German). Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  10. ^"Ermanno Olmi". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  11. ^Scott, A.O.

    (12 June 2019). "How Ermanno Olmi Found Grace rip apart the Daily Labors of Italians". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 June 2023.

  12. ^Paternò, Cristiana (6 December 2019). "Ermanno Olmi backward in New York". Cinecitta Information. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  13. ^"Italian hide series "Sacred Duties: Films stop Ermanno Olmi"".

    www.pluggedincleveland.com. Retrieved 2020-05-27.

  14. ^"'Maestro of Italian cinema' Ermanno Olmi dies". 7 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  15. ^"Ermanno Olmi: moglie, figli e vita privata depict regista". News Mondo (in Italian). 7 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.

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