Il Posto

Il posto
US DVD cover
Directed byErmanno Olmi
Written byEttore Lombardo
Ermanno Olmi
Produced byAlberto Soffientini
Starring
  • Loredana Detto
  • Sandro Panseri
CinematographyLamberto Caimi
Edited byCarla Colombo
Music byPier Emilio Bassi
Production
companies
Distributed byTitanus
Release dates
Running time
97 minutes (restored version)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Il posto, English titles The Job or The Sound of Trumpets,[2] is a 1961 Italian comedy-drama[3] film directed by Ermanno Olmi, his second feature film.[4] Screened at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, it received numerous national and international awards.[5] In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[6]

  1. ^ Crowther, Bosley (23 October 1963). "Screen: A Clerk in Italy:'Sound of Trumpets' at Two Theaters". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  2. ^ Pettigrew, Ian (2020). The Cinema of Ermanno Olmi. McFarland. ISBN 9781476665894.
  3. ^ "Il Posto". Time Out. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  4. ^ Jones, Kent (23 June 2003). "Il posto: Handcrafted Cinema". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Il posto". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.