Ermanno olmi biography
Ermanno olmi biography
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Ermanno Olmi
Italian film director and screenwriter (1931–2018)
Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018)[1][2][3] was an Italian film director and screenwriter best known for directing Il Posto (1961) and The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1977), which won the Palme d'Or.
Throughout his career Olmi blended Italian neorealism with Christian humanism, with many of his films following humble characters through the spiritual trials of harsh conditions.
Early life
Olmi was born to a working-class Catholic family in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region in northern Italy, and raised in nearby Treviglio.[4][5][6]
When Olmi was three years old, his family moved to Milan, where his parents found work with the utility company Edison-Volta.[4] At age 16, Olmi began working there as a messenger.
Olmi was initially interested in architecture, but was inspired to pursue cinema by the works of Roberto Rossellini. He began takin