1 Movie Starring Robert Van Loon

Paisan

Paisan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1948-03-29

Languages:

Italian, English, German, Sicilian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (4298 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Sergio Amidei (story)

Klaus Mann (story)

Federico Fellini (story)

Marcello Pagliero (story)

Alfred Hayes (story)

Sergio Amidei (screenplay)

Federico Fellini (screenplay)

Roberto Rossellini (screenplay)

Rod E. Geiger (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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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