A region is born, 1968

Location: Various, Italy Creator: Ennio Lorenzini Portrait of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, with interviews, testimonies and images that reconstruct its recent history, from the Second World War to the end of the Sixties. 01. Overview of the trenches of the First World War and the Shrine of Redipuglia 02. Photos of Friulian partisans killed by Germans and fascists; German calls and warnings 03. The tombstones and tombs of the victims of the Nazi massacre of Avasinis on May 2, 1945 04. An Italian-Slovenian demonstration in Opicina 05. Overview of countries destroyed by war and never rebuilt due to military easements 06. The unfinished Madrisio di Varmo railway bridge and the Pontebbana single-track railway 07. Peasant women working in the fields; interview with a peasant woman 08. An old woman carries a pannier full of hay on her shoulder 09. A girl pushes a cart full of wood 10. A woman loads a pannier with bundles on her shoulders 11. Overview of the abandoned houses of Venzone; two mummies 12. Overview of the Blenda mine, in the Predil Quarries 13. The Sade Enel plants in the Vajont; the rubble; people lay flowers and light candles near the crosses, placed at the scene of the tragedy 14. Construction work for a stone barrier at Passo San Osvaldo, Mount Toc 15. The wooden shacks of the Erto refugee camp; written on the walls against Sade 16. Internal interviews with some of Erto's displaced women 17. The Saici Snia Viscosa plant in Torviscosa (Udine); waters polluted by acids, dead fish 18. Fishermen from Marano pull empty pots on board the boat 19. View of the port of Marano; men and women select the crabs caught 20. Work to excavate a beach in Monfalcone 21. Overview of the port of Trieste; cranes, deserted docks; moored boats; buildings 22. Interni, interview with a port on the crisis of the port of Trieste 23. Views of the San Marco shipyard; the entrance of workers; dockers behind the gates of a busy shipyard 24. Workers' demonstrations in Pordenone and other Friulian cities 25. Workers on the roof of a factory 26. Demonstration in Trieste; motorcyclists parade with red flags