Ermanno Olmi Movies

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

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,...

"Documentary, showing workmen erecting one of the pylons and stringing up three cables which will eventually reach to Milan." - BFI

Story of a retired old man who is learning what to do with himself.

A young man shares his fantasies with a young girl who is already on the threshold of disillusion. Will she respond to him?

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

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...

After a big flood some Calabrian children are sent to Milan.

An accidental interruption of the S. Giacomo Electric Line requires the intervention of a team of specialized technicians. The short movie follows...

Vittorio De Seta's documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959.