'Paisan'

Paisan is the second of a trilogy of films from Robert Rossellini (the director who knocked up Ingrid Bergman, lucky dog) set around World War II in Italy, the first being Open City, Rome.

Paisan is a set of short vignettes focusing on the American campaign in Italy focusing on the relationship forged or forgotten as the Americans ran the Nazis out of the country.

There's the story of a GI and a young guide. A drunken GI and a boy who steal his shoes. Several shorts focused on romantic relationship. Another set around some American chaplains (including a Rabbi) who face a certain amount of prejudice on not all being Catholic in an Italian monastery. Then there's the story of the American agents fighting with Italian partisans along the banks of the Po River.

Although the story is interesting, the American actors are awful. I suspect it's because they're not very good and because they're being directed by a foreign director. Still, could've been way better.