November 14 1951 the left bank of the Po river a few hundred meters from the PaduaBologna railway bridge breaks The tide invades the Polesines lands in a few minutes one of the poorest regions in Italy at the time Thousands people men women and children flee while the water remains stagnant for months between the houses and the countryside Today 70 years later the children of that time remember those months immortalized by the films perfectly preserved in the Istituto Luces archives