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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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