People of the Po Valley (1947)

Original title

Gente del Po

Directed by

Michelangelo Antonioni

Genre

documentary film

Country

Italy

Runtime

11 min

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows the daily lives of people who work and live along the Po River in Italy. It focuses on barge workers and fishermen going about their routines. The film presents their simple, hard existence without much commentary.

observationalearthyhumblerhythmicgroundednaturalisticquietly humandocumentary-like

What happens

Gente del Po, sometimes referred to in English as People of the Po Valley, is an Italian documentary short film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1943 and released in 1947. It was Antonioni's debut film and is, together with Luchino Visconti's Ossessione, considered to be one of the earliest examples of Italian neorealism. Gente del Po documents people living on or near the Po river, including barge workers and fishermen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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