Paisà Paisan [videorecording]= Roberto Rossellini

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Roberto Rossellini

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TextLanguage: Italian, English Summary language: English Original language: Italian Subtitle language: English Series: The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 498 | Roberto Rossellini's War TrilogyPublication details: Italy Janus Films Organizzazione Film Internazionali (OFI) Foreign Film Productions 1946Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) sound, b&w. 4 3/4 inOther title:

Paisan

Uniform titles:

Paisan

LOC classification:

PN1997 .P357 1946

Summary: From case cover: Roberto Rossellini's follow-up to his breakout Rome Open City was the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan, which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. With its documentary-like visuals and its intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday lives in extreme circumstance is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid reality. A long-missing treasure of Italian cinema, Paisan is available here for the first time in its full original release version.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .P357 1946	Available	Part of the War Trilogy		000779

Special features include:
- Video introduction by Roberto Rossellini from 1963
- Video interview with Roberto Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà
- Excerpts from rarely seen videotaped discussions Rosseelini had in 1970 with faculty and students at Rice University about his craft
- Into the Future, a new visual essay about the War Trilogy by film scholar tag Gallagher

From case cover:
Roberto Rossellini's follow-up to his breakout Rome Open City was the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan, which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. With its documentary-like visuals and its intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday lives in extreme circumstance is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid reality. A long-missing treasure of Italian cinema, Paisan is available here for the first time in its full original release version.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1; 1.33:1 as 4:3 fullscreen.

Italian and English audio. Optional English subtitles.

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