Staging Injustice Film Series: L’albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi
March 03, 2022
An in-person screening of Ermanno Olmi’s “L’albero degli zoccoli” surrounded by works of Italian modern art!
The second film in our Staging Injustice Film Series, L’albero degli zoccoli (The Tree of the Wooden Clogs, 1978) is directed by Ermanno Olmi and stars Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, and Omar Brignoli.
Synopsis (via IMDB): The life inside a farm in Italy at the end of the 19th century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy’s shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy another pair. What can they do?
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON SCREENING AT CIMA.
Please note: the screening will begin at 5:30PM, with an introduction by Prof. Stefano Albertini (NYU).
Stefano Albertini is a native of Bozzolo in the Northern Italian province of Mantua. He studied at the Università di Parma, where he majored in Political History. After obtaining his M.A. in Italian Literature from the University of Virginia he was admitted to Stanford University where he earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the rethoric of violence in Niccolò Machiavelli’s writings.
He has published extensively on topics ranging from Dante to Renaissance Literature, to Church/State relations during fascism. Since 1994, he has been teaching literature and cinema in the Department of Italian Studies at New York University. He frequently contributes to Criterion Collection as an expert on Italian film, with interviews on Bellocchio, Matarazzo, Visconti, and Moonstruck. From 1995 to February 1998 he was Associate Director of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and since then he has served as Director.
General Admission: $10
CIMA Members and Students with valid ID: $5
Public Programming at CIMA is made possible with the generous support of Christie’s.
