{"product_id":"roberto-rossellinis-war-trilogy-500","title":"Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy (#500)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoberto 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—\u003ci\u003eRome Open City, Paisan,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGermany Year Zero\u003c\/i\u003e—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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"filmdetail__support_img\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/criterion-production\/product_images\/1934-9121909235b34c704ecc53b432150a94\/dZNZ1nCXJbEhZeNY4YNXuFLwJPn0yD_original.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharetools  sharetools-boxset\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header_lvl2 quillgray\"\u003eShare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"shareList\" data-share-link=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/boxsets\/689-roberto-rossellini-s-war-trilogy\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/boxsets\/689-roberto-rossellini-s-war-trilogy#\" class=\"ga-share-facebook\" data-share-type=\"facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"\u003e\u003csvg width=\"8\" height=\"16\" 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1.548.64.855.855.855 2.245 0 3.1l-1.532 1.532c.088.272.15.55.19.83.028.21.047.42.048.63.003.388-.045.776-.135 1.155l2.79-2.788c1.604-1.606 1.604-4.21 0-5.817z\" fill=\"#b4841e\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"film-meta\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 quillgray\"\u003eFilm Info\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"film-meta-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpine #500\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"film-sets-list\" data-sticky-left-end=\"\" data-sticky-left-content-end=\"\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2\"\u003eFilms In This Set\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"film-sets-contain\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/films\/975-rome-open-city\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/criterion-production\/films\/065858072a69f217ae517f2cc87a2c68\/0T7IhsxzrE4rW48efa7kEHGrSe77j0_small.jpg\" alt=\"Rome Open City\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"film-set-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"film-set-title\"\u003eRome Open City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"film-set-year\"\u003e1945\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"film-set-descrip\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Though told with more melodramatic flair than the films that would follow it to form The War Trilogy and starring some well-known actors—Aldo Fabrizi as a priest helping the partisan cause and Anna Magnani in her breakthrough role as the fiancée of a resistance member—\u003cem\u003eRome Open City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in every frame. Marking a watershed moment in Italian cinema, this galvanic work garnered awards around the globe and left the beginnings of a new film movement in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/films\/2415-paisan\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/criterion-production\/films\/7b27c9719b8fe36e334fa0ba43910a0e\/GwB3ma4IYcYsr5CZ4ZizQW0i0mxyxc_small.jpg\" alt=\"Paisan\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"film-set-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"film-set-title\"\u003ePaisan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"film-set-year\"\u003e1946\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"film-set-descrip\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoberto Rossellini’s follow-up to his breakout\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRome Open City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas the ambitious, enormously moving\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaisan,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhich 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 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaisan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis available here in its full original release version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/films\/297-germany-year-zero\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/criterion-production\/films\/7cb52be2fd1572e3a5b5276e84d487fa\/TECVVTeHMMxaHWxosd91eIX8qS2hMK_small.jpg\" alt=\"Germany Year Zero\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"film-set-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"film-set-title\"\u003eGermany Year Zero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"film-set-year\"\u003e1948\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"film-set-descrip\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGermany Year Zero\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"product-features product-features-set collapse pk-boxset-product-features\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapse-contain content-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"max-width-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eTHREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew high-definition digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductions by director Roberto Rossellini from 1963\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews from 2009 with scholar Adriano Aprà, critic and Rossellini friend Father Virgilio Fantuzzi, and filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio commentary on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRome Open City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby scholar Peter Bondanella\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time . . . “Rome Open City,”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea 2006 documentary on the making of the historic film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRossellini and the City,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea 2009 video essay by film scholar Mark Shiel on Rossellini’s use of the urban landscape in The War Trilogy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExcerpts from discussions Rossellini had in 1970 with faculty and students at Rice University about his craft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eInto the Future,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea 2009 video essay about The War Trilogy by scholar Tag Gallagher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRoberto Rossellini,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea 2001 documentary by Carlo Lizzani, assistant director on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGermany Year Zero,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etracing Rossellini’s career through archival footage and interviews with family members and collaborators, with tributes by filmmakers François Truffaut and Martin Scorsese\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLetters from the Front: Carlo Lizzani on “Germany Year Zero,”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea discussion with Lizzani from the 1987 Tutto Rossellini conference\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eItalian credits and prologue for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGermany Year Zero\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRoberto and Roswitha,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea 2009 illustrated essay by scholar Thomas Meder on Rossellini’s relationship with Roswitha Schmidt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: A booklet featuring essays by James Quandt, Irene Bignardi, Colin MacCabe, and Jonathan Rosenbaum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Criterion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45433156894764,"sku":"715515201711","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0359\/2201\/8348\/files\/roberto-rossellinis-war-trilogy-500-new-blu-ray-715515201711-9072947.jpg?v=1775388190","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitdvd.com\/products\/roberto-rossellinis-war-trilogy-500","provider":"Orbit DVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}