Il posto

Il posto

Domenico is thrust into the big city by his family to find a job for life. He’s up for an exam to secure a post along with many hopefuls. There he meets Antonietta (played by Olmi’s then wife Loredana Detto) and the two strike up a friendship and experience the world of work for the first time together. Stunningly shot on the streets of Milan, Ermanno Olmi’s (The Tree of Wooden Clogs) touching and often funny portrait of modern life and work won numerous awards on release and is recognised as a classic of world cinema. 

BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• 4K restoration from the original camera negatives by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Titanus

• Uncompressed mono PCM audio

• Appreciation by filmmaker Maurizio Zaccaro (2024, 19 mins)

• Interview with cinematographer Lamberto Caimi (2024, 17 mins)

• Interview with author Richard Dyer (2024, 39 mins)

• Delete scene from Il posto (3 mins)
  

• Newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista

Year: 1961/1963
Country: Italy
Cert: PG
Format: Blu-ray
Region: ABC
RAD095BD
EAN: 5060974681839
Release date: 20/04/26

Press

British Film Institute Awards: Sutherland Trophy, 1961

Venice Film Festival -  OCIC Award, Italian Film Critics Award

David di Donatello Awards: Best Director Ermanno Olmi, 1962

“Olmi’s treatment of his characters is understanding in the most comprehensive sense: at
once compassionate and dispassionate.” – Imogen Sara Smith, Film Comment

“One of the glories of the cinema… Il Posto ushered something new into world cinema: a sense of intimacy between director and characters that surpassed anything in the neorealist canon" Kent Jones, Toronto International Film Festival