Il Posto

Il posto
Il posto
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Directed by	Ermanno Olmi
Written by	Ettore Lombardo; Ermanno Olmi
Produced by	Alberto Soffientini
Starring	Loredana Detto; Sandro Panseri;
Cinematography	Lamberto Caimi
Edited by	Carla Colombo
Music by	Pier Emilio Bassi
Production; companies	Titanus; The 24 Horses;
Distributed by	Titanus
Release dates	1961 (Venice Film Festival); 22 October 1963 (New York);
Running time	97 minutes (restored version)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Il posto, English titles The Job or The Sound of Trumpets,^[2] is a 1961 Italian comedy-drama^[3] film directed by Ermanno Olmi, his second feature film.^[4] Screened at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, it received numerous national and international awards.^[5] In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."^[6]

^ Crowther, Bosley (23 October 1963). "Screen: A Clerk in Italy:'Sound of Trumpets' at Two Theaters". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
^ Pettigrew, Ian (2020). The Cinema of Ermanno Olmi. McFarland. ISBN 9781476665894.
^ "Il Posto". Time Out. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ Jones, Kent (23 June 2003). "Il posto: Handcrafted Cinema". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
^ "Il posto". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 25 February 2024.
^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.