Perhaps his best known film is '' The Tree of Wooden Clogs '' ( '' L'Albero degli zoccoli '' ) , which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival . The film drew heavily on Olmi 's grandmother 's stories about peasant life in agricultural regions of Italy . In 1983 his film '' Walking , Walking '' was screened out of competition at Cannes . In 1988 , his '' La leggenda del santo bevitore '' ( The Legend of the Holy Drinker ) , based on the novella by Joseph Roth and starring Rutger Hauer , won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival as well as a David di Donatello award
1978 Cannes Film Festival
1978 Cannes Film Festival
Ermanno Olmi