The Tree of Wooden Clogs

1978 · Directed by Ermanno Olmi · 186 min · drama film

★ 7.6/10 · 241 ratings on TMDB

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.