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Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018)<ref>Lutto nel cinema, è morto Ermanno Olmi Template:In lang</ref><ref name=":1">Lane, John Francis (May 7, 2018). "Ermanno Olmi obituary". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018.</ref><ref name="hr">Template:Cite news</ref> 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 lifeEdit

Olmi was born to a working-class Catholic family in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region in northern Italy, and raised in nearby Treviglio.<ref name="Roberts">Roberts, Sam (May 8, 2018). "Ermanno Olmi, Whose Films Captured Humble Lives, Dies at 86". The New York Times. nytimes.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12. Print version, May 10, 2018, p. A25.</ref><ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

When Olmi was three years old, his family moved to Milan, where his parents found work with the utility company Edison-Volta.<ref name="Roberts" /> 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 taking art classes and convinced Edison-Volta to start a documentary division. As head of the new division, Olmi made as many as 40 corporate documentaries.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name="Roberts" />

Olmi's first feature film, Time Stood Still began as a corporate documentary about a hydroelectric dam.<ref name="Roberts" />

CareerEdit

Olmi's first scripted film was the acclaimed Il Posto, which follows a young man entering corporate life. Parts of the story were drawn from Olmi's experiences working in Milan. The film starred non-professional actor Loredana Detto, who Olmi would later marry.<ref name="Roberts" />

Following from his humble start in corporate documentaries, Olmi typically helmed minimal productions, often writing, directing, filming, and editing the films himself.<ref name="young" />

Perhaps his best known film is The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. The film drew heavily on Olmi's grandmother's stories about peasant life in agricultural regions of Italy.<ref name=":1" /> In 1983 his film Walking, Walking was screened out of competition at Cannes. In 1988, his La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), based on the novella by Joseph Roth and starring Rutger Hauer, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival as well as a David di Donatello award.

In 1982, Olmi founded Ipotesi Cinema, a film school in the village of Bassano del Grappa.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

His The Profession of Arms (Il mestiere delle armi) also won a David di Donatello award.

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FilmographyEdit

LegacyEdit

Olmi has been the subject of many retrospectives. In 2019, the Austrian Film Museum conducted a complete retrospective of Olmi's work (excluding only his short films) – together with the films of Federico Fellini – in collaboration with the Cineteca Nazionale and the "Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Vienna".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Also in 2019, Film at Lincoln Center honored Olmi with a two-week retrospective. The series was co-produced by Istituto Luce Cinecittà and presented in association with the Ministry of Culture of Italy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The films then traveled to Cleveland, where the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque hosted a seven-part retrospective.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2008 he received the Honorary Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> He had turned down the same award in 2004, feeling that it would have signified a premature end to his career.<ref name="hr" />

Personal lifeEdit

In 1959, Olmi moved to the Asiago plateau, where he would live for the rest of his life.<ref name="Roberts" /> Olmi led a relatively simple life away from the spotlight of the film industry, only rarely sitting for interviews and keeping no copies of his films. Olmi reportedly hesitated to travel by air.<ref name="young">Template:Cite journal</ref>

In 1963 Olmi married Loredana Detto, who had played Antonietta Masetti in his film Il Posto (1961).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The couple had 3 children; Fabio, Elisabetta, and Andrea.<ref name="hr" />

Olmi died on 7 May 2018 in Asiago. His death was mourned by then Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni as well as director Martin Scorsese.<ref name="hr" />

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