A conversation between a salesman of calendars and his costumer, who makes him several questions before considering buying one of his offers.
Acting
Pampurini's face crumples with each rejected calendar—devastating.
Direction
Olmi squeezes a feature's worth of class tension into ten minutes.
Director
Ermanno Olmi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Olmi shot this while working at Edisonvolta, using real locations and non-professionals—pure neorealist DNA.
Part of Olmi's 'Industrial Trilogy' of shorts; he understood working-class humiliation because he lived it.
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