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Legacy.com, reported May 8, 2018: Ermanno Olmi (1931 – 2018), Italian cinematic legend.
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Legacy.com, reported May 8, 2018: Ermanno Olmi (1931 – 2018), Italian cinematic legend.
Ermanno Olmi, an Italian cinematic giant who won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival for his depiction of 19th- century Italian farm life in "The Tree of Wooden Clogs," has died at age 86.
Olmi died Monday in the northern Italian city of Asiago, where a day of mourning has been planned for his funeral, Mayor Roberto Rigoni Stern told the ANSA news agency.
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