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Paisan

Paisan

1946 · 125 min · IT · 7.6 (272 votes)
Dir. Roberto Rossellini · Starring Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel, Raymond Campbell, Harold Wagner, Albert Heinze · Music Renzo Rossellini

“There are always opportunities for redemption.”

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Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

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A stark, unvarnished look at the human cost of war. It feels like witnessing history unfold through the eyes of ordinary people, their struggles and fleeting moments of hope etched against a ravaged landscape.

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