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Il Posto

Il Posto

1961
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
037429180228
action | comedy | drama | foreign | thriller
Italy | Italian | Color | 01:30

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.


Cast View all

Loredana Detto Antonietta Masetti
Sandro Panseri Domenico Cantoni
Corrado Aprile Bit Part
Guido Chiti Bit Part
Tullio Kezich Psychologist
Bice Melegari Bit Part
Mara Revel Domenico's Senior Fellow Colleague
Guido Spadea Portioli

Trailer

Edition details

Edition Criterion
Packaging Keep Case
Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Mono [English]
Dolby Digital Stereo [Italian]
SUB [English]
Subtitles English
Distributor Criterion
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Jun 24, 2003
Regions Region 1