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Released
1978 · FILM

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

When the family of man was still—a family.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
187 min
Language
IT
DramaHistory
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

On a northern Italian farm at the turn of the 20th century, a group of sharecroppers struggle to survive in poverty. A priest recommends that Batisti and his wife Batistina send their young son, Minec, to school for a formal education, and they give up his labor in the fields to do so. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti, in a moment of desperation, takes a risky action to replace the clog, jeopardizing the family's future.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 12

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ermanno OlmiDesigned by Enrico Tovaglieri

Also known as

  • Der Holzschuhbaumde
  • The Tree of Wooden Clogsen
  • The Tree with the Wooden Clogsen
  • El árbol de los zuecoses
  • L'Arbre aux sabotsfr

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