Ermanno Olmi

Ermanno Olmi was born in Bergamo on 24 July 1931. Employed in Milan by the electricity company Edisonvolta, he directed dozens of corporate documentaries there during the 1950s, then made his first feature film in 1959. He founded a film school in Bassano del Grappa, Ipotesi Cinema. He received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1988, then another Golden Lion for his body of work in 2008. He died in Asiago on 7 May 2018.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Tree of Wooden ClogsL'albero degli zoccoliErmanno Olmi · 1978Cinema