What is The Tree of Wooden Clogs?
Released in 1978, the drama film The Tree of Wooden Clogs is set on a northern Italian farm at the turn of the twentieth century, where a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises a sharecropper named Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should receive a formal education.
- Type
- Film
- Year
- 1978
- Release date
- Sep 21, 1978
- Genres
- Drama
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- Rating
- ★ TMDB users: 7.6/10
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Released in 1978, the drama film The Tree of Wooden Clogs is set on a northern Italian farm at the turn of the twentieth century, where a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises a sharecropper named Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should receive a formal education. To follow this advice, the parents sacrifice the boy's help in the fields and send him to school, which requires him to walk a distance of seven miles each morning. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti finds himself unable to afford a replacement. In an act of desperation to replace the broken clog, Batisti puts the family's future at risk. The film has a runtime of three hours and seven minutes, or one hundred seventy-seven minutes, and is presented in color with Italian dialogue.
Should you watch it?
“Northern Italian sharecroppers face threadbare survival and a desperate choice at the turn of the twentieth century.”
- Presents an authentic portrayal of poverty and ordinary rural life taking cues from neorealist cinema.
- Explores the realities of peasant life on a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the nineteenth century.
- Features a compelling dramatic narrative surrounding a father's desperate sacrifice for his young son's education.
- The runtime spans three hours and seven minutes, which may require a significant viewing commitment.
Watch it if you are interested in a neorealist cinematic study of nineteenth-century peasant life and ordinary rural struggles.
The film offers a dramatic, authentic portrayal of poverty and rural life with a runtime of three hours and seven minutes.
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Where can I stream The Tree of Wooden Clogs?
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Is The Tree of Wooden Clogs worth watching?
It is a acclaimed drama that offers an authentic, neorealist study of nineteenth-century Italian peasant life and rural struggles.
What is the runtime of the film?
The film has a total runtime of three hours and seven minutes.
Are there essential episodes to watch?
The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a feature film rather than a television series, so it does not contain episodes.
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