Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, Ermanno Olmi’s The Tree of the Wooden Clogs is an epic portrait of peasant life in late nineteenth century Italy.

Focussing on four families working and living on the farm of a landowner in the Bergamo region of northern Italy, Olmi presents a year in their lives, charting their daily activities and the natural flow of existence: birth, marriage, death, and the trials and tribulations in between.

Shot on an abandoned farmhouse in Bergamo, The Tree of Wooden Clogs utilised locals of the region for its characters and had them speak in their Bergamasque dialect. The end results are truly remarkable, the apotheosis of Italian cinema’s neo-realism movement.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
Brand-new 4K restoration by The Film Foundation
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition presentations
Original Bergamasque and Italian mono soundtracks (uncompressed LPCM on the Blu-ray)
Optional English subtitles
Introduction by director Ermanno Olmi
Two interviews with Olmi from the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, recorded either side of its Palme d’Or win
Interview with Olmi from Italian film programme Appuntamenti con il cinema
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin

★FIRST PRESSING ONLY:
Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by David Jenkins

DETAILS

RRP: 24.99
Region: B
Rating: 12
Duration: 186 mins
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: mono 1.0
Discs: 2

Directed by: Ermanno Olmi
Starring: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli

Dual Format
UK Blu-ray Cat No: FCD1551
UK Blu-ray Barcode: 5027035017204