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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.
Define Paisano. Paisano is a Spanish term that refers to a fellow countryman or someone from the same region or town. The word is commonly used in the southwestern United States, particularly in Texas, New Mexico, and California, where there is a significant Hispanic population.
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.
Roberto Rossellini's film, made in the aftermath of WWII, consists of six distinct chapters, showing various relationships between the American occupiers and the newly liberated Italians. Two of ...
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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.
Aug 31, 2023 · English: peasant. French: paysan. Spanish: paisano. Categories: English lemmas. English nouns. English countable nouns. English terms with quotations. Old French terms derived from Frankish.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun paisan. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in U.S. English.
Beginning in Sicily, local girl Carmela guides a band of American soldiers through a minefield with devastating results; then in Naples, Pasquale, an orphaned child of war, steals the boots of an inebriated African-American G.I. and is later followed back to his war-battered town.
