A story of rebuilding a village almost completely destroyed by WWII. The Montinelli family waited two years in a Displaced Persons (DP) camp before being allowed to return to what's left of their village, San Ambrosia. UNRAA will help rebuild the village, send school desks, clothing, new shoes, fertilizers and seeds. A German mine explodes in the fields, but the family and village survive. (Sam Bryan) A portrayal of UNRRA's aid to an Italian family, the Montinellis, leaving the DP camp and going home, to what had been once their modest but comfortable home in a typical Italian village. But that was before the enemy planes bombed their village. Now the village to which they are returning is only a pile of debris but is still home to Montinelli, his wife Maria, his son Vito, and baby daughter Tina. And as things seem hopeless, UNRRA aid arrives. (www.cine-holocaust.de) A report of the work of UNRRA in Italy. The story of an Italian family which leaves the refugee center at the end of the war to return to its home in a bombed-out, rubble-filled village. The film shows the problems confronting the villagers, the beginning of rebuilding, helped by UNRRA, the need for clothing, etc. A buried mine explodes in the field which the father of the family is plowing and he is hospitalized and aided by medicines supplied by UNRRA. The work of UNRRA having come to a stop, the film asks what is to happen to the Montenellis now. (1950 NYU Film Library Catalog)

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