Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy: The Criterion Collection DVD

• Technical Specs
• Format: DVD
• Rating: Not Rated
• Number of Discs: 3
• Run Time: 303 Minutes
• Region: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
• Studio: Criterion Collection
• DVD Release Date: January 26, 2010
• Subtitles: English
• Audio:
  ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
  ITALIAN: Dolby Digital Mono
  GERMAN: Dolby Digital Mono
  
• Color: Black & White
• Includes:
  - New, restored high-definition digital transfers
  - Video introductions by Roberto Rossellini to all three films, from 1963
  - New video interviews with Rossellini scholar Adriano Apra, film critic and Rossellini friend Father Virgilio Fantuzzi, and fi

Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II - Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero - that he left his first transformative mark on cinema. With their stripped-down aesthetic, largely nonprofessional casts, and unorthodox approaches to storytelling, these intensely emotional works were international sensations and effectively launched the neorealist movement. Shot in battle-ravaged Italy and Germany, these three films are some of our most lasting, humane documents of devastated postwar Europe, containing universal images that encompass both tragedy and hope.

Rome Open City
This was Roberto Rossellini's revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Rome Open City is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II.

Paisan
Roberto Rossellini's follow-up to his breakout Rome Open City was the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan, which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley.

Germany Year Zero
The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin shown through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.

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