E venne l’uomo – Un dialogo con Ermanno Olmi

A Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2008; a Palme d'Or for L'albero degli zoccoli in 1978; a Golden Lion for La leggenda del santo bevitore in 1988: for over fifty years Ermanno Olmi has shown reality with all the rigor of a filmmaker who always feels himself to be making a new start. In his interview with the critic Federico Pontiggia, he meditates on his poetics, on human values, humanistic aims, and his hopes for human solidarity. He has given us a cinema imbued with silence, one that with its coherent strength and originality stands apart from today's audiovisual background noise. E venne l'uomo is the clearheaded and sincere, passionate and profound, touching and amused testimony of a wise man, Ermanno Olmi, someone who through images, sound, and poetry continues to nurture his career as a filmmaker, his existential imagination, and a desire to know Humanity. (Venice International Film Festival)