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Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
aka: Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany: Year Zero
Italy 1945-1948, 302 minutes
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
In French with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama
Aroview: Shot in battle-ravaged Italy and Germany, featuring largely nonprofessional casts, real war ravaged locations, and unorthodox approaches to storytelling, these intensely emotional dramas were global sensations and came to define the neorealist movement. Three potent and humane documents of devastated postwar Europe, containing universal images of both tragedy and hope.
DVD Features
- Introductions by director Roberto Rossellini from 1963
-Once Upon a Time . . . “Rome Open City,” a 2006 documentary on the making of the historic film
- Rossellini and the City, a 2009 video essay by film scholar Mark Shiel on Rossellini’s use of the urban landscape in The War Trilogy
- Into the Future, a 2009 video essay about The War Trilogy by scholar Tag Gallagher
- Roberto and Roswitha, a 2009 illustrated essay by scholar Thomas Meder on Rossellini’s relationship with Roswitha Schmidt
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by James Quandt, Irene Bignardi, Colin MacCabe, and Jonathan Rosenbaum
- audio commentary
- cast and/or crew interviews
- 'making of' documentary / featurette
- trailers
- aspect ratio: 4:3 (original academy)
Close Relatives
- Germany Year Zero (1947)
- Rome: Open City (1945)
- De Sica Collection, The (1949)
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