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    Paisan

    Paisan

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    September 23, 2011

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    Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Carmela Sazio, Dots M. Johnson, Maria Michi
    Italy 1946, 35mm, b/w, 116 min. Italian, English and German with English subtitles

    The middle film in Rossellini's famous "war trilogy" – between Open City and Germany Year Zero – Paisà is not a film about the events of the Risorgimento, but instead a series of sequences from the lives of everyday Italians, both civilians and antifascist partisans, during the fight for the liberation of Italy by the Allied armies in 1943 and 1944. Starting in the south and moving north, the episodes follow the armies as they traverse the different regions – depicting tales of everyday heroism, a kind of neorealist "history from below." Framed by a map of Italy whose pieces are illuminated one by one, the stories express a hope that fascism's authoritarian hierarchies would be replaced with a pluralist Italy which acknowledged and celebrated regional differences.


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        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        $9 - Regular Admission
        $7 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens
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        September 23, 2011

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        7pm

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