The Criterion Collection
Germany Year Zero
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Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
Year: 1948
Time: 71 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 499
Release Date: January 26 2010
MSRP:
Box set exclusive
DVD
1 Disc | DVD-9
1.33:1 ratio
German 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English
Region 1
Video introduction by Roberto Rossellini from 1963
The Italian release opening credits and voice-over prologue
Roberto Rossellini, a 2001 documentary by Carlos 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: Carlos Lizzani on “Germany Year Zero,” a podium discussion with Lizzani from the 1987 Tutto Rossellini conference
New video interview with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà
Italian directors Paolo Taviani 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
