TY - BOOK AU - Roberto Rossellini AU - Roberto Rossellini AU - Sergio Amidei AU - Federico Fellini AU - Carmela Sazio AU - Joseph Garland Moore Jr. AU - William Tubbs TI - Paisà: Paisan AV - PN1997 .P357 1946 PY - 1946/// CY - Janus Films, Organizzazione Film Internazionali (OFI), Foreign Film Productions PB - Italy N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -