The Tree of Wooden Clogs
On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec’s wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti–in an act of desperation–puts the family’s future at risk to replace the clog.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ermanno Olmi, Fiorella Lugli
Actors: Antonio Ferrari, Carlo Rota, Francesca Moriggi, Francesca Villa, Giuseppe Brignoli, Luigi Ornaghi, Massimo Fratus, Omar Brignoli, Pasqualina Brolis, Teresa Brescianini
