At the end of the war, he was hired by Edison and in 1951 he made a film on all the important hydroeletrical plants built in that period. In the following years, Olmi directed around 40 documentaries, including La diga del ghiacciaio, Pattuglia di Passo San Giacomo, Tre fili fino a Milano, Michelino 1aB (written by Goffredo Parise), Manon finestra 2 and Grigio (whose screenplay was written by Pier Paolo Pasolini).
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer
Ermanno Olmi
Director
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Laggiù qualcuno mi ama77%
Sherman's March67%
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Being James Bond77%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Night Will Fall76%
Selfie71%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
Public Speaking70%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
180° South72%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Sidney70%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
McQueen74%