Directed by:
Roberto RosselliniCinematography:
Otello MartelliComposer:
Renzo RosselliniCast:
Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Maria Michi, Harriet Medin, Renzo Avanzo, William Tubbs, Gar Moore, Dots Johnson, Alfonsino Pasca, Giulietta Masina (more)Plots(1)
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, taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. With its documentary-like visuals and its 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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Carmela Sazio
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Robert Van Loon
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Maria Michi
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Harriet Medin
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Renzo Avanzo
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William Tubbs
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Dots Johnson
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Alfonsino Pasca
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Paisan (1946)
Giulietta Masina
Italy
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Anthony La Penna
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