Word: paisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of a wartime swindler named Giuseppe Bertoni (played by Vittorio De Sica), who was forced to become a Nazi spy but eventually gave his life for his country, the Rossellini effort was an almost unanimous critical success. "Comeback!" cried the critics, and talked of the old Rossellini of Paisan and Open City. "Finally a good film," beamed Rome's Tempo. "With this picture all hopes are rekindled. The old, glorious banner of the first Rossellinian neorealism flies again...
Julius LaRosa, of Godfrey and Paisan fame, will be at Blinstrubs while Carmen MacRae sings "charmingly" at Storyville. A belated St. Paddy's Day Ball will get rolling at Shamrock Village tonight...
Died. Joseph Burstyn, 53. U.S. importer-distributor of foreign films (Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief), who fought a 1951 New York State ban on The Miracle and last year won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing it; of a coronary thrombosis...
...cold, grey, documentary photography powerfully evokes a world of medieval desolation. At the same time, the picture glows with a warm lyricism. In its blend of tenderness and turbulence, Flowers of St. Francis is a film poem that deserves to rank with Rossellini's own Open City and Paisan...
...others: Roberto (Open City, Paisan) Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica...