Paisan

“There are always opportunities for redemption.”

Six separate stories, and no one character carries from one to the next, only the Allied advance north through Italy. American soldiers meet Italians along the way, from Sicily to the Po Valley, over eighteen months of the Italian Campaign. Roberto Rossellini casts Carmela (Carmela Sazio) and Joe (Robert Van Loon) alongside local people and shoots on location, so each episode plays like a report from that one stretch of road.