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. 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.
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini from 1963
- Interview from 2009 with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà
- Excerpts from discussions Rossellini had in 1970 with faculty and students at Rice University about his craft
- Into the Future, a 2009 video essay about The War Trilogy by film scholar Tag Gallagher
Available In
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini from 1963
- Interview from 2009 with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà
- Excerpts from discussions Rossellini had in 1970 with faculty and students at Rice University about his craft
- Into the Future, a 2009 video essay about The War Trilogy by film scholar Tag Gallagher
Cast
- Carmela Sazio
- Carmela
- Robert Van Loon
- Joe (first episode)
- Dots M. Johnson
- Joe (second episode)
- Alfonsino Bovino
- Pasquale
- Maria Michi
- Francesca
- Gar Moore
- Fred
- Harriet White
- Harriet
- Renzo Avanzo
- Massimo
- Bill Tubbs
- Captain Bill Martin
- Father Vincenzo Carrella
- Friar guardian
- Captain Owen Jones
- Protestant chaplain
- Sergeant Elmer Feldman
- Jewish chaplain
- Dale Edmonds
- Dale
- Achille Siviero
- Cigolani
- Roberto Van Loel
- German officer
Credits
- Director
- Roberto Rossellini
- Story by
- Sergio Amidei
- with the collaboration of
- Federico Fellini
- with the collaboration of
- Rod Geiger
- with the collaboration of
- Alfred Hayes
- with the collaboration of
- Klaus Mann
- with the collaboration of
- Marcello Pagliero
- with the collaboration of
- Roberto Rossellini
- Produced by
- Roberto Rossellini
- with the participation of
- Rod Geiger
- Photographed by
- Otello Martelli
- Sound by
- Ovidio Del Grande
- Music by
- Renzo Rossellini
- Editor
- Eraldo Da Roma
- Assistant directors
- Massimo Mida
- Assistant directors
- Federico Fellini
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