Rome Open City

 

Year: 1945

Time: 103 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 497

Release Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2010

MSRP: $79.95  (Box set exclusive)

 

DVD

1 Disc

1.37:1

Italian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region 1

 

 Video introduction by Roberto Rossellini from 1963   Audio commentary featuring 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   New video interviews with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà   Rossellini and the City, a new visual essay by film scholar Mark Shiel (Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City) on Rossellini’s use of the urban landscape in the war trilogy   New video interview with film critic and Rossellini friend Father Virgilio Fantuzzi, who discusses the filmmaker and the role of religion in Rome Open City