Il Posto

Domenico and Antonietta are two suburban Italian youths who meet while seeking "a job for life" from a big city corporation.

Director Ermanno Olmi Approved Special Edition

When young Domenico (Sandro Panseri) ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in fetching new worker Antoinette (Loredana Detto). A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man's stumbling entrance into the perils of modern adulthood.


Overview
The 1961 Italian coming-of-age drama Il Posto comes to DVD from Criterion. Presented in the original black-and-white with a restored high-definition 1.33:1 transfer in an RSDL dual-layer edition. Audio is offered with a Dolby Digital Mono 1.0 soundtrack in Italian with improved English subtitle translation. Special features include a rare deleted scene, theatrical trailer, restoration demonstration, and an essay by critic Kent Jones. Also contains "Reflecting Reality," an interview with director Ermanno Olmi and historian Tullio Kezich, as well as Olmi's 1967 short film La Cotta.