Time Stood Still
1960 · 83 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 513 VOTES · DIR. Ermanno Olmi
Overview
Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the valley to spend Christmas vacation with his family he is temporarily replaced with an adolescent boy. The other man is both annoyed and intrigued by the boy and his habits: he listens to loud music, sleeps too long in the mornings and doesn't drink any alcohol. They barely speak to one another in the first couple of days. But when an avalanche cuts their small hut from electricity they slowly start growing more fond of each other.
Dialogue Timeline — 488 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:07 TIME STOOD STILL
00:03:31 Sunday we don't work
00:04:43 They're marvelous!
00:05:38 Total: 5.2
00:06:57 - Do you want anything? - A pretty brunette!
00:16:26 I just got here.
00:17:25 Where do I have to go?
00:22:55 Ready-to-wear deluxe
00:28:12 but it's worth it.
00:32:24 Pedrazzini?
00:41:19 DANGER OF DEATH
00:45:02 I shared a room with someone obsessed with checkers.
00:47:09 Yes, we're going to the dam to check on the main bearing.
00:49:13 Is it far?
00:52:25 Tomorrow morning? Okay.
00:56:31 Hello?
00:58:12 The guys from Pantano told me.
01:00:57 In the past, a man was a man.
01:02:06 "What child?
01:03:08 That the meat displayed in the window...
01:08:05 Where I fell, I think.
01:10:11 And if he's too sick to leave?
01:15:02 The wind has to let up.
01:20:15 That I was sick.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed488
Dialogue density5.9 lines / min
First line00:00:07
Final line01:20:15
Production Record
DirectorErmanno Olmi
LanguageItalian
IMDb votes513