Paisà (1946)

Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs, Robert Van Loon. The language barrier has tragic consequences in a series of unrelated stories set during the Italian Campaign of WWII.

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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. With its documentary-like visuals and intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this look at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday lives in extreme circumstances is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid reality. A long-missing treasure of Italian cinema, Paisan is available here in its full original release version.

Roberto Rossellini's episodic, neorealist tale of life in Italy during World War II focuses largely on the efforts of Allied soldiers and nurses, improvised by a cast of non-professional actors.

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

Paisan is a film directed by Roberto Rossellini with Maria Michi, Gar Moore, Carmela Sazio, Dots M. Johnson, .... Year: 1946. Original title: Paisà. Synopsis: Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Roberto Rossellini's episodic, neorealist tale of life in Italy during World War II focuses largely ...