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Paisan (1946)  link to Paisan on IMDb  

Number: 140

poster Paisan

IMDb Rating:
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7.8/10 (4493 votes)

Country: Italy, 134 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, German, Italian

Genre(s): Drama, War

Director(s): Roberto Rossellini

Storyline:
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field; she dies protecting a G.I., but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated; in six months they meet again: he's cynical, she's a prostitute. A US nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German fire in search of a partisan she loves. Three chaplains, including a Jew, call on a monastery north in the Apennines. Allied soldiers and partisans try to escape capture in the marshes of the Po.

Cast:
Carmela Sazio (as Carmela), Robert Van Loon (as Joe, the American soldier), Benjamin Emanuel (as An American soldier), Raymond Campbell (as An American soldier), Harold Wagner (as Harry, a German soldier)

Medium: Unknown,

Comments: 5-240

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3