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Paisan (Italian: Paisà) is a 1946 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. In six independent episodes, it tells of the Liberation of Italy by the Allied forces during the late stage of World War II. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and received numerous national and international prizes.
pai·sa·no. (pī-zä′nō) also pai·san (-zän′) n. pl. pai·sa·nos also pai·sans. 1. A countryman; a compatriot. 2. Slang A friend; a pal. [Spanish, from French paysan, from Old French paisant, peasant; see peasant .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Paisan: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel, Raymond Campbell. American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
Jan 26, 2010 · Paisan: More Real Than Real. R oberto Rossellini’s second postwar film was released in the United States as Paisan, and one can understand why the distributors wanted to use a title familiar to many Americans as meaning “friend” or “countryman” for a work that is at root a reflection on the virtues of fraternity.
Paisan. Roberto Rossellini’s follow-up to his breakout Rome Open City was the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan, which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po valley.
Oct 1, 2019 · Complemented by Renzo Rossellini’s score and Otello Martelli’s cinematography, Paisan’s rendering of Italy at war is a mutable travelogue besieged by rubble and deprivation, presented in the raw visual detail that recurrently accentuated Neorealism’s integral immediacy.
Paisan. Roberto Rossellini’s follow-up to his breakout ROME OPEN CITY was the ambitious, enormously moving PAISAN, which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po valley.
