Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 187 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti--in an act of desperation--puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog.
- farm
- dancing
- parent child relationship
- winter
- peasant
- village
- money
- school
- shoe
- nostalgic
The bill
- Teresa Brescianini — Widow Runk
- Giuseppe Brignoli — Anselmo
- Carlo Rota — Peppino
- Pasqualina Brolis — Teresina
- Massimo Fratus — Pierino
- Francesca Villa — Annetta
- Maria Grazia Caroli — Bettina
- Battista Trevaini — Il Finard
- Giuseppina Langalelli — La Moglie Finarda
- Lorenzo Pedroni — Il Nonno Finard
- Felice Cervi — Uslì
- Directed
- Ermanno Olmi
- Written
- Ermanno Olmi
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 241 ratings
- Studio
- Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico, RAI
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
