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Paisan 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.
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Roberto Rossellini’s celebrated 1945 drama *Rome, Open City* is considered to be the rawest and most authentic depiction of the Second World War in Italy. That film, however, barely references the Allies, who played a large role in those events. Rod E. Geiger, the film’s American producer and a veteran of the US Army Signal Corps, suggested Rossellini address this issue in his next film. Rossellini listened to him,…More
