Il Posto
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| Directed by | Ermanno Olmi |
| Produced by | Alberto Soffientini |
| Written by | Ettore Lombardo Ermanno Olmi |
| Starring | Loredana Detto Tullio Kezich Sandro Panseri Mara Revel |
| Music by | Pier Emilio Bassi |
| Cinematography | Lamberto Caimi |
| Editing by | Carla Colombo |
| Distributed by | Titanus |
| Release date(s) |  1961 |
| Running time | 93 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
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Il Posto is an introspective, meditative 1961 post-neorealist film directed by Ermanno Olmi. By illustrating its protagonist's inner turmoil, the film explores the fate of introverted, meek, northern Italian peasants at the height of the nation's rapid postwar urbanization and modernization. During this epoch (known as Italy's Economic miracle), the country's middle class swiftly absorbed much of the working class and peasantry. The film situates its story in a detailed, plainly recognizable booming Milan, complete with consumer excesses, cramped apartments, and even featuring in a prominent manner the city's 1960s real estate boom. The wider scope of Olmi's series of vignettes touches upon the sudden change in leisure time, lifestyle and social mores experienced by displaced peasants in a modern (and early postmodern) urban space.
Olmi's film bares comparison with Pier Paolo Pasolini's films of the early 1960s as both filmmakers show concern for the sudden disappearance of Italy's millenary rural heritage during the process of social and economic reorganization brought about by postwar recovery and global (neo)capitalism.
