- Starring: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno, Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dots Johnson, Maria Michi, Gar Moore, Harriet Medin, Renzo Avanzo, William Tubbs, Dale Edmonds, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne
- Director: Roberto Rossellini
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Rating: Unrated
- Running Time: 4 hrs. 51 mins.
- Release Date: January 26, 2010
SYNOPSIS:
Rome Open City (1945): As German soldiers march through town, Giorgio Manfredi eludes them by jumping across the rooftops. A priest, Don Pietro Pellegrini, helps the resistance by transmitting messages and money. Don Pietro is scheduled to officiate Pina's wedding. Francesco, her betrothed, is not very religious, but would rather be married by a nationalist priest than a fascist official. Her son, Marcello, and his friends have a small role in the resistance. Pina's sister befriends Marina, Giorgio's former girlfriend, who betrays the resistance in exchange for drugs, fur coats, and other creature comforts.
Paisan (1948): 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 (1949): 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.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
· New, restored high-definition digital transfers
· Video introductions by Roberto Rossellini to all three films, from 1963
· New video interviews with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà, film critic and Rossellini friend Father Virgilio Fantuzzi, and filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
· Audio commentary on Rome Open City by film scholar Peter Bondanella
· Once Upon a Time . . . "Rome Open City," a 2006 documentary on the making of this historic film, featuring rare archival material and footage of Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Ingrid Bergman, and many others
· Rossellini and the City, a new visual essay by film scholar Mark Shiel on Rossellini's use of the urban landscape in the War Trilogy
· Excerpts from rarely seen videotaped discussions Rossellini had in 1970 with faculty and students at Rice University about his craft
· Into the Future, a new visual essay about the War Trilogy by film scholar Tag Gallagher
· 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 François 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
· Italian credits and prologue for Germany Year Zero
· 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
· PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by James Quandt, Irene Bignardi, Colin MacCabe, and Jonathan Rosenbaum
· Video introductions by Roberto Rossellini to all three films, from 1963
· New video interviews with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà, film critic and Rossellini friend Father Virgilio Fantuzzi, and filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
· Audio commentary on Rome Open City by film scholar Peter Bondanella
· Once Upon a Time . . . "Rome Open City," a 2006 documentary on the making of this historic film, featuring rare archival material and footage of Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Ingrid Bergman, and many others
· Rossellini and the City, a new visual essay by film scholar Mark Shiel on Rossellini's use of the urban landscape in the War Trilogy
· Excerpts from rarely seen videotaped discussions Rossellini had in 1970 with faculty and students at Rice University about his craft
· Into the Future, a new visual essay about the War Trilogy by film scholar Tag Gallagher
· 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 François 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
· Italian credits and prologue for Germany Year Zero
· 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
· PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by James Quandt, Irene Bignardi, Colin MacCabe, and Jonathan Rosenbaum
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