Event Details
The second installment in his WWII trilogy and one of Rossellini’s favorites of his films, the episodic Paisàn is another depiction of the tribulations of the Italians under German occupation. Its title translates to “fellow countryman” and takes a broader view of Italy than his previous Rome, Open City (1945), moving the action outside the capital to focus on the interactions between American armed forces and the country residents impacted by conflict. Future Italian auteur Federico Fellini co-wrote the screenplay, which came together on the fly, with dialogue of each sequence written just before it was filmed.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1946 | 126 min | Italy | Black-and-white | Italian/English/German/Sicilian/Latin/Hebrew with English subtitles | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Roberto Rossellini
PRODUCED BY: Rod E. Geiger, Roberto Rossellini
WRITTEN BY: Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Alfred Hayes, Marcello Pagliero
WITH: Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel, Raymond Campbell
35mm print courtesy Cinecittà.