THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS / A FILM BY ERMANNO OLMI / Arrow / WINNER PALM D'OR CANNES / DVD Video

UPC 5027035004785

Playtime is 178 Minutes 

"A MASTERPIECE" - NEW YORK TIMES

A moving portrait of peasant life in turn-of-the-century Lombardy and using a cast of non-actors, this is one of the last great examples of Italian neo-realist cinema.

Batisti is a proud but poor peasant who wants a better life for his young son. He sends the boy to a school far away - wearing his only pair of wooden clogs, the child makes the long trek to class on foot.

All is well until the clogs are damaged. Wood is scarce, as is money, so Batisti sneaks into a rich landowner's grove to "borrow" the wood to make a new pair. But he is caught and the rich man decides to oversee the poor man's punishment personally.

SPECIAL FEATURE: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR ERMANNO OLMI

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ERMANNO OLMI

• FEATURE RUNNING TIME: 178 MINS APPROX.
• ASPECT RATIO: 16:9 FULL HEIGHT ANAMORPHIC
• AUDIO: 2.0 STEREO
• COLOUR: PAL/COLOUR
• LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
• SUBTITLES: ENGLISH
• PACKAGING DESIGN - ARROW FILMS 2007