Ermanno Olmi, a noted Italian neorealist director whose 1978 film The Tree of Wooden Clogs won the Palme d’Or in Cannes, has died at age 86. No cause of death was given. Italian officials ...

By Rhett Bartlett Ermanno Olmi, the master Italian neorealist director who received the Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 for The Tree of Wooden Clogs, has died. He was 86.

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 the age of 86.