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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.
- 56 million Lire
- Renzo Rossellini
- 10 December 1946 (Italy)
- Roberto Rossellini, Mario Conti, Rod E. Geiger
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.
- (9.2K)
- Roberto Rossellini
- Not Rated
- Drama, War
In liberated Rome, the impoverished young prostitute Francesca waits for the American soldier who fell in love with her six months before; in Florence, during a battle across the Ponte Vecchio, Harriet, a nurse in an American military hospital, risks her life to reunite with her lover.
Paisan is a 1946 film by Roberto Rossellini that depicts the liberation of Italy from Nazi occupation through six episodes. It features a mix of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and Americans, and captures the human drama and cultural clashes of the war.
- Carmela
Jan 26, 2010 · Paisan is a collection of six stories that depict the clash of cultures and languages in Italy during World War II. The film uses nonprofessional actors, documentary locations, and multiple dialects to create a realistic and complex portrait of a country in transition.
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...
- (13)
- War, Drama
Filmed in the ruins of post-war Italy, Paisan is a vital neorealist portrait of a country in chaos. Across six stories, it starts with the Allied invasion of Sicily and then moves up the Italian Peninsula, following liberation through the eyes of ordinary people.
