CAST:
Luigi Ornaghi (Batisti),
Francesca Moriggi (Batistina),
Omar Brignoli (Minek),
Antonio Ferrari (Tuni),
Teresa Brescianini (udovica Runk)

SCRIPT:
Ermanno Olmi

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Ermanno Olmi

Synopsis:
This film is a story about the troubles of a poor family that lives in Italy in the beginning of the 20th century. They survive by farming other people’s land. Even though they live very hard they decide to make another sacrifice in order to enable their son to go to school. Every morning he has to walk a long way to school. When his shoes wear out, his family does not have enough money to buy him new shoes…

color, 186 min