Paisà (1946)

Directed by

Roberto Rossellini

Genre

drama film, war film, art film

Country

Italy

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

16

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 358 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Six separate episodes show different encounters between American soldiers and Italian civilians during the Allied liberation of Italy at the end of World War Two. Each story shows the struggles and misunderstandings that come with war and occupation.

grittyepisodicearnestgroundedpoignantrawreflectiveunvarnished

What happens

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. In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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