Ermanno Olmi Movies

An Italian professor seeks refuge in the quiet, peaceful ruins of an old building.

A conversation between a salesman of calendars and his costumer, who makes him several questions before considering buying one of his offers.

An unusual and evocative journey through the city of Milan at the beginning of the 80's, among fashion, art and everyday life.

Italian maestro Ermanno Olmi tells the tale of the journey of the Magi in this lyrical odyssey. The film focuses on a wise man who interprets his...

A self-assured, middle-aged advertising executive has his life upset by an unforeseen accident.

In the 18th Century, in Bohemia, a government surveyor meet a priest during a lunch and remained intrigued by him. Years later, in a stony valley,...

Milan, one winter in the early sixties. Valeria, a free young woman who usually goes from one man to another, falls in love with Giampiero. This...

The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its...

Two young women and a young man confront a tech mogul on a train about their new invention.

Ermanno Olmi has returned to documentary filmmaking and makes a journey through valleys, living rocks and the culture of the Valtellina hillsides.

Laura, a woman of a certain age with full grown children who, by all indications should be leading a great life, but actually, she appears to have...

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the...

At the end of the war, he was hired by Edison and in 1951 he made a film on all the important hydroeletrical plants built in that period. In the...