Synopsis
Il Posto (1961) is an Italian drama by Ermanno Olmi you can watch online on iFILM. Domenico is a teenager from Milan's outskirts who takes a train into the city, sits an entrance exam at a large company, and gets the job. His family calls it luck. A job for life.
The office is enormous and grey. The colleagues on either side have been at the same desks for twenty years and plan to be there twenty more. Domenico's only flicker of warmth comes from Antonietta — a young woman hired the same afternoon, for the same kind of post — but even that tentative connection struggles against the weight of the place. Olmi shot with non-professional actors and real locations, keeping everything at street level.
Il Posto took the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. It remains one of the quietly devastating films about what a secure career actually costs. Stream it online on iFILM.
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