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Watch: Paisà 1946 123movies, Full Movie Online – Enmeshed with the Italian Campaign during the liberation of Italy from July 1943 to late 1944, six distinct but unconnected episodes unfold in which American military personnel interact with Italian locals–some sympathetic, others hostile–as the Germans are forced to retreat from Sicily to the delta of the Po River. Beginning in Sicily, local girl Carmela guides a band of American soldiers through a minefield with devastating results; then in Naples, Pasquale, an orphaned child of war, steals the boots of an inebriated African-American G.I. and is later followed back to his war-battered town. In liberated Rome, the impoverished young prostitute Francesca waits for the American soldier who fell in love with her six months before; in Florence, during a battle across the Ponte Vecchio, Harriet, a nurse in an American military hospital, risks her life to reunite with her lover. Next, three army chaplains are taken in by a Roman Catholic monastery in the Apennine Mountains, although only one of them is a Catholic. Finally, on the banks of Po River at its delta near Venice, American OSS officers and Italian Partisans fight the Nazis, after saving two downed English pilots..
Plot: Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
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Ironic, Neo-realist narrative of Italian-American interaction in WW II, proves way ahead of its time
In Roberto Rossellini’s first film of a war trilogy, Rome Open City, he chronicled the effect of Nazi occupation on the denizens of Rome. Here he’s more concerned with the interaction between the occupying American soldiers and Italians. Paisan is an unusual film for its time in that a good part of the dialogue is in English spoken by off-Broadway actors imported to Italy to play American soldiers; and even more innovative is the fact that Paisan features six separate episodes that are tied together by the theme of miscommunication brought about by war and the ensuing ironies inherent in a story that features a clash between two very different cultures.

Perhaps the most devastating episode is the first one. The American reconnaissance patrol only has one translator to sort out the conflicting voices in a small Sicilian village and we learn early on that the Americans will have a hard time understanding their reluctant Italian hosts. After employing a local girl, Carmela, as their guide, the Americans end up in the ruins of a deserted seaside castle—they leave a private, Joe, a regular guy from New Jersey, with Carmela at the castle where they attempt to communicate despite not knowing each other’s language.

Things take a tragic turn when Joe is shot by a German sniper and the Germans occupy the castle. Carmela shoots at the Germans in revenge for Joe’s death and she herself is captured and thrown off the cliffs by the Germans. The ultimate miscommunication occurs after the Americans return and ironically (and incorrectly) conclude that Carmela was the one who killed Joe.

As we head north, the second episode is set in the port city of Naples. It is remarkable in that it features an African-American actor (Dots Johnson) playing a non-stereotyped part as Joe, an Army MP (this is 1946 when it was unheard of for a black actor to obtain such a “normal”, non-offensive role). When we first meet Joe, he’s intoxicated and confesses to Pasquale, a young street urchin he’s befriended, that he doesn’t want to go home (owing to the racism of the times back in the US). After waking up from his drunken stupor, he discovers that Pasquale has stolen his shoes and after running into the kid again the next day, he’s determined to find the boys’ parents and have them return his shoes.

The irony in this episode becomes clear when Pasquale brings Joe to where he lives and tells him that his parents were killed by allied bombs. In an epiphany, Joe finally has sympathy for Pasquale, realizing that his own personal struggle with racism pales in comparison to the boy who sadly lost his parents—he thus drives off and drops his useless obsession in attempting to recover the shoes.

We now move to Rome in the third episode. Fred (Gar Moore) is a G.I. who meets a prostitute, Francesca, who brings him back to a room. He reminiscences about a woman he had met six months earlier when the Americans first liberated the city—Fred has idyllic memories of this woman and wishes he could see her again. Through his description, Francesca ironically realizes that Fred doesn’t recognize her and she is the woman Fred met six months ago. Her attempt to reveal her true identity goes awry when she hands an address to the building superintendent and asks her to give it to Fred when he wakes up. Fred later discards the address thinking it’s just the address of another brothel ruining any chance for romance between the two in the future. Again, it’s the ineluctable effect of war that leads to heartache and disappointment.

The fourth episode involves two characters, American nurse Harriet (Harriet Medin) and a partisan Massimo (Renzo Avanzo), who seek to enter a besieged section of the city of Florence, defended by partisans who are trying to beat back the Germans. Harriet’s motive is to hook up with the partisan leader Lupo whom she has known in the past and perhaps is in love with. Massimo simply wants to re-connect with family members. As they move from street to street, dodging bullets, they are constantly advised to turn back by other partisans. The irony is that their motives appear selfish, considering that at the end of their sojourn, one of the partisans is shot on the street by a sniper, directly as a result of their foolish desire to satisfy their own whims.

The fifth and perhaps most enigmatic episode involves three US Army chaplains, a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew, who visit a recently liberated Roman Catholic monastery. The Jewish chaplain notes that the priests in the monastery are cut off from the reality of war. Ironically, the priest’s spirituality is marred by petty prejudice as they are shocked by the presence of the Protestant and Jewish chaplain. During the meal, only the Americans eat, while the bigoted priests fast in the hope their non-Catholic guests will repent and perhaps someday convert. Leave it to Captain Bill Martin (William Tubbs), the Catholic chaplain, to surprisingly toast his hosts, whom he apparently forgives and still admires for their devotion to faith.

The last episode must be compared with the first where the Americans completely misread the Italians and–through suspicion brought on by the realities of war–arrive at an erroneous conclusion signaling the gulf between the two cultures. It’s the last episode, ironically, where Italians partisans are now working directly with American OSS agents–despite the tragic ending where the Germans drown the partisans and the Americans die also in a show of solidarity, the interaction between Italians and Americans have come full circle. Rossellini emphasizes the bond between the two peoples as they fight a common enemy.

Paisan is a must-see which mixes documentary footage and a Neo-realist narrative to great effect.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 2 hr 6 min (126 min), 2 hr (120 min) (USA), 2 hr 5 min (125 min) (Italy), 2 hr 14 min (134 min) (restored)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, War
Director Roberto Rossellini
Writer Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Actors Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Country Italy
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Tecnostampa, Roma, Italy
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm