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Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan is a landmark of Italian Neorealism and a follow-up to his breakthrough film Rome, Open City. Together with Germany, Year Zero, it forms part of Rossellini’s celebrated war trilogy.Tickets: https://panora.se/filmer/paisan/
The film is composed of six episodes set during the Allied liberation of Italy, from Sicily in 1943 to the marshlands of the Po Delta in the winter of 1944–45. Paisan ’s episodic structure carries a profound political insight: no single story can contain the truth of a nation’s suffering and resistance. Italy emerges not as a monolith but as a patchwork of dialects, landscapes, and moral choices. The final episode, set among the partisans of the Po Delta, achieves a devastating austerity that anticipates decades of political cinema to come.
Paisan is an essential cornerstone – a film that insists on looking at history through the eyes of ordinary people, and that finds, in the chaos and rubble, both the fragility and the resilience of human dignity.
“PAISÀ’s realism consists in reflecting the unbridgeable gap between humanity and the real; its humanism in recognising and displaying the suffering this gap condemns humanity to.” – Allan James Thomas, SENSES OF CINEMA
Six episodes on the allies crossing Italy. In the first, a Sicilian girl befriends an American soldier. In the second, a Neapolitan rascal steals the shoes of a black American soldier who moves to pity for him. In the third, a Roman girl forced to prostitution encounters a US soldier she had met during Liberation Day. In the fourth an English nurse uselessly wanders around Florence looking for a partisan she has fallen in love with. In the fifth episode three American chaplains of different confessions are welcomed to stay at a newly liberated Roman Catholic monastery. In the sixth and final episode partisans and US paratroops are the victims of the ferocity of German Nazis.
The screening is part of Malmö Antifascista's curated film program Cinema Resistenza.
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ABOUT MALMÖ ANTIFASCISTA
Malmö Antifascista is an Italian-speaking collective of antifascists active in the area of Malmö since October 2023. They arrange different types of study activities on fascism, antifascism and resistance, with an internationalist perspective and a special attention towards the Italian and the Swedish political context.
Organizers: Malmö Antifascista, Folkets Bio Malmö
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Biograf Panora Malmö, Friisgatan 19 D,Malmö, Sweden
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