Germany Year Zero

 

Year: 1948

Time: 71 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 499

Release Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2010

MSRP: $79.95  (Box set exclusive)

 

DVD

1 Disc

1.33:1

German Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

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