Tree of Wooden Clogs 12A

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1978, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is an honest and unique drama surrounding peasant family life in Italy. Filmed entirely on location over four months at an abandoned farm, and working with local people who live as their ancestors would have many years before, this film is a beautiful exercise in realism. An intimate portrait of four families living an isolated life in the Bergamo province, capturing the lives, loves, births and deaths of four families painted against a backdrop of nineteenth century superstition and backbreaking labour conditions.  An epic piece of that triumphs heart-stirring human resilience.