Paisa DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Available for the first time on DVD in the UK Robert Rossellini&s ambitious & enormously moving follow-up to his breakthrough Rome Open City is presented here in a new restoration Made in the aftermath of the Second World War Paisà is constructed as a series of six encounters which take place during the liberation of Italy as Allied troops advance through the country from Sicily to the northern Po Valley via Rome & Florence Shot on location using a non-professional cast alongside actors the semi-documentary aesthetic & epic sweep of Paisà is both charming & devastating in it&s portrayal of the final days of war & the confusion that follows in it&s wake Paisà forms the second part of Rossellini&s acclaimed War Trilogy & is classic of neo-realist cinema