Paisan (1946) [Restored]

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Writers: Sergio Amidei (story) (as S. Amidei), Federico Fellini (story) (as F. Fellini)
Stars: Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to the end of 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a minefield; she tries to protect a wounded G.I., but the Yanks come to think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from an M.P. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated; in six months they meet again, but they've both been changed deeply during the time apart. A US nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German fire in search of a partisan she loves. Three chaplains, including a Jew, call on a monastery high in the Apennines. Allied soldiers and partisans try to escape capture in the marshes of the Po.

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