Paisan

Also Known As: Paisan

Company: Organizzazione Film Internazionali (OFI) / Foreign Film Productions

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Plot: 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 and Character: 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 / Albert Heinze as A German soldier / Merlin Berth as Merlin, an American soldier / Mats Carlson as Swede, an American soldier / Leonard Parrish as An American soldier / Dots Johnson as Joe - the American MP / Alfonsino Pasca as Pasquale / Maria Michi as Francesca / Gar Moore as Fred, an American soldier / Harriet Medin as Harriet, the nurse / Renzo Avanzo as Massimo

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Description: 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 ...

Directors: Roberto Rossellini

Genres: War / Drama

Location: Florence, Tuscany, Italy

MPAA: Approved

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0038823.jpg

Rating: 7.7

Release Date: 29 March 1948 (USA)

Runtime: 134 min

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Sound Mix: Mono

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Title: Paisà

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038823/

Votes: 2,990

Writers: Sergio Amidei / Klaus Mann

Year: 1946

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Paisà got rated 7.7.

About the movie: 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.

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The Ox-Bow Incident got rated 8.1.

About the movie: Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.

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Operation Crossbow got rated 6.5.

About the movie: This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of the second world war. Even though the Nazis were in retreat these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. The film includes references to Hannah Reich, who in real life was a German test pilot.

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Oliver Twist got rated 6.9.

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