Word: paisan
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Italy's moviemakers, who have turned out some of the world's best postwar pictures on a shoestring (Open City, To Live in Peace, Paisan, Shoeshine), had reason to feel bitter last week about their American competitors. Hollywood was pressing its advantage in the one department in which it invariably excels: money...
...Paisan. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...
...Paisan. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...
...Paisan. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...
...short stones, each with different characters, and ranges from Sicily to the River Po. At its best, it beats any other movie the Italians have made. Its unity is in its theme: the relationships between men at war (chiefly U.S. soldiers) and the men & women native to the battleground. Paisan (rough G.I. translation: "bud") was directed by Roberto Rossellini, who made the famed Open City...