Shot between 1944 and 1947, this documentary highlights the gigantic reconstruction effort, to ensure as quickly as possible the gradual restoration of the rails essential to the economic recovery and...
The film is a chronicle of July 14 1948, the day the leader of the Italian Communist Party Palmiro Togliatti was shot in Rome by a sicilian student, and of the subsequent general strike which brought ...
The oft-debated "Questione Meridionale" (Southern Issue) is here tackled from the perspective of the Communist Party. he As the film extensively shows how poverty and backwardness in the southern regi...
Sponsored by the Italian Communist Party's propaganda, the film presents the city of Modena (led by the former partisan and former major Alfeo Corassori) as a model of virtuous practices. is a general...
Footage of postwar life in Europe: the streets of Munich in Ruin, the post-WWII displaced persons’ camps, Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, American soldiers, JDC (aka Joint) officials, Jewish r...