Paisà

The second part of Rossellini’s revered war trilogy is a key milestone of Italian neorealism which reveals a truthful simplicity in six searing tales.

  • Director

    Roberto Rossellini

  • With

    Carmela Sazio, Dots M. Johnson, Maria Michi, Harriet White, Dale Edmonds

  • Italy 1946. 124min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English and Italian with English subtitles

A year after Rome, Open City, Rossellini resumes his reflection on the brutality of war. Co-written by Fellini, Paisà’s six episodes follow the advance of the Allies in the peninsula, from Sicily to the Po Delta, bringing into focus a polyphonic portrait of Italy. Stories are shown in their raw violence, reaching a crescendo in the stark tragedy of the final episode, one of the greatest sequences in cinema.

Restored in 2013 by Cineteca di Bologna, CSC – Cineteca Nazionale, Coproduction Office at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, with the support of Cinecittà.

Joint ticket available with the screenings of Germany, Year Zero and Rome, Open City on Sunday 19 May £25.50, concessions £19.50 (Members pay £3 less).

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