I SAN MICHELE DEL PO

Michele Gandin, 1955

Documentary film hinging around the story of Antonio Massarenti, who is granted a farm. His story is used to show the first effects of the agrarian reform launched in 1951 by the Body in charge of the Colonization of the Po Delta, which turned many labourers into farmers. Modern and comfortable houses replace crumbling buildings and bunkers, while road, schools and clinics improve the general life conditions of households. Children can finally go to school without having to walk for five kilometres and sick people can be promotly treated.