GENTE DEL PO

at the opening of the preview screening of PO by Andrea Segre and Gian Antonio Stella

Considered one of the first Neorealist films, the documentary is the Michelangelo Antonioni’s debut as a director tells the Po… rows of poplars, the scales, the immensity of the plain and the daily gestures of the workers of the great river. The flat-bottomed steamboats transport agricultural products and are inhabited by entire families. On the river bank the women do the laundry. When there is a storm you need to defend yourself from the high tide and the wind, the miserable villages near the shore are invaded by mud…