DVD
Paisan = Paisà
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
[Special ed.] ; Full screen version.
Languages
In Italian and English with English subtitles.
Performers
Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dotts M. Johnson, Alfonso Bovino, Maria Michi, Gar Moore, Harriet White, Renzo Avanzo, Bill Tubbs.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Consisting of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley, Paisan looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and how people live their everyday lives in extreme circumstances.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released in 1946.
Special features: Video introduction by Roberto Rossellini from 1963; new video interview with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà; excerpts from rarely seen videotaped discussions Rossellini had in 1970 with faculty and students at Rice University about his craft; "Into the future:" a new visual essay about the War Trilogy by film scholar Tag Gallagher.