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ROBERTO ROSSELLINI'S
WAR TRILOGY
complete 3-disc boxset
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/689
http://www.amazon.com/Roberto-Rossellinis-Trilogy-Criterion-Collection/dp/B002U6DVQ2
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews49/roberto_rossellinis_war_trilogy.htm
http://www.dvdtown.com/review/roberto-rossellinis-war-trilogy-the-criterion-collection/dvd/7715
http://www.dvdplanet.com/Details.cfm/info/HVD002170/roberto-rossellini-s-war-trilogy
Studio: Criterion
DVD RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 26, 2010
ABOUT THE BOXSET:
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 came to define 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 of both tragedy and hope.
If "Rome, Open City" wasn't actually the beginning of modern cinema, it was a beginning, one of the films that, along with "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero" and other neo-realist films, transformed the ways in which future generations of filmmakers would think about the relationship between cinema and the real world. The last sixty plus years of world cinema would not have looked the same without Rossellini's pioneering work.
CONTENTS:
3 feature films:
Rome Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945, 100 min.)
http://www.criterion.com/films/975
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038890/
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946, 120 min.)
http://www.criterion.com/films/2415
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038823/
Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1946, 71 min.)
http://www.criterion.com/films/297
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039417/
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 7.58 + 7.62 + 7.68 GB - Exact Untouched Copy
Time (total): 303 minutes
Type: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1 (Rome Open City) | 1.33:1
Sound (main features): German + Italian (both spoken)
Subtitles: optional English
SET DETAILS
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DISC ONE
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ROME OPEN CITY
http://www.criterion.com/films/975
1945, 100 min.
Black and White
1.37:1
German, Italian
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DISC TWO
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PAISAN
http://www.criterion.com/films/2415
1946, 120 min.
Roberto Rossellini's follow-up to his breakout Rome Open City was the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan (Paisa), which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. With its documentary-like visuals and its intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this look at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday lives in extreme circumstances is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid reality. A long-missing treasure of Italian cinema, Paisan is available here for the first time in its full original release version.
Black and White
1.33:1
English, German, Italian
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DISC THREE
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GERMANY YEAR ZERO
http://www.criterion.com/films/297
1948, 71 min.
The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black-market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher. Germany Year Zero (Deutschland im Jahre Null) is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.
Black and White
1.33:1
German
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SET FEATURES:
All three films have received extensive digital restoration to meticulously remove individual examples of dirt, debris, stains scratches etc. (to put this in perspective -- Paisan alone required more than 500 hours and more than 265,000 individual manual fixes).
# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# Video introduction by Roberto Rossellini from 1963.
# The Italian release opening credits and voice-over prologue.
# Roberto Rossellini, a 2001 documentary by Carlo Lizzani, assistant director on Germany Year Zero, tracing Rossellini's career through archival footage and interviews with family members and collaborators, with tributes by filmmakers Francois Truffaut and Martin Scorsese.
# Letters from the Front: Carlo Lizzani on 'Germany Year Zero,' a podium discussion with Lizzani from the 1987 Tutto Rossellini conference.
# New video interview with Rossellini scholar Adriano Apra.
# Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Padre padrone) discussing the profound influence Rossellini's films have had on them.
# Roberto and Roswitha, a new illustrated essay by film scholar Thomas Meder on Rossellini's relationship with his mistress Roswitha Schmidt.
# New and improved English subtitle translations.
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