Paisan

Original title: Paisà

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American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

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7.6/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 10 wins & 2 nominations total

Trivia
The monks in the fifth episode were authentic Franciscan monks from the Maiori convent, near Salerno.

Goofs
At approximately 1:36 (2:05 version), during Episode V, as the American Army Catholic Chaplain stands in the center of the screen discussing his two associate Army Chaplains (Protestant and Jewish) with the monks, you can see two individuals standing in the doorway behind them (they appear to be the other two Army Chaplains). In less than a minute, they suddenly disappear.

Quotes
Captain Bill Martin - the catholic chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano): I've never examined their consciences. I've never discussed this with them. I've never asked them anything, because I never felt I could judge them. I know them too well. They're good friends. Perhaps you, here mind this peace, this atmosphere of serene meditation, consider me guilty. I don't feel guilty. My conscience is clear.

Alternate versions
Originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 8, 1946 in a longer cut (running 134 minutes). Later cut to 125 minutes. The 134 min. cut has been restored from material found at the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv in Berlin, Germany and has premiered at the 55th Venice Film Festival in 1998.

Connections
Edited into Secret Dossier of the Mafia (1970)

Soundtracks
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
(uncredited)
Traditional
Performed by Dots Johnson

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I have lived this story, and my heart cries every time i see this picture

This movie is the masterpiece of Roberto Rossellini, more than Roma città aperta. I was eleven when this story happened, I saw the Nazi troop burn the little town where I lived, I saw my mother kneeling and begging a Nazi soldier not to kill us, and I saw the German saying You bastard italian, alles kaputt. All the stories of this movie are true, the little boy who is alone in Napoli, the Roman girl who loves the GI arrived and after became a bitch (is more difficult to win the peace than the war), the story in Florence, you think to be in August 44, the British officer who speakes of the poor jerries that destroys all the world around them, the execution of the fascist sniper, peoples running in the Gallery of Uffizi. But the most moving is the final episode,one can feel the fear, the smell of death, the courage of the partisans and of the O.S.S., Popsky army and San Marco men. Now, when many people has forgotten the horror of war, the cruelty of men, the courage of few, this picture should be projected as a memory of things that we don want to see anymore. My name is Bruno Signorelli, I am 67 and I have seen what means the war, especially the guerrilla war.