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• Tree Of Wooden Clogs | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli Zoccoli) written directed shot and edited by Ermanno Olmi is an elegiac portrait of peasant life in turn-of-the-century Lombardy and a classic example of Italian neo-realism. One year in the lives of four peasant families all living in the same farmhouse is slowly revealed in a mosaic of small but stunning sequences. There's no hero no antagonist and no great wrong that gets set right. This film is simply a slice of life a living docu