Germany Year Zero
The 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. Germany Year Zero is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini from 1963
- Italian-release opening credits and voice-over prologue
- 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
- Letters from the Front: Carlo Lizzani on “Germany Year Zero,” a discussion with Lizzani from the 1987 Tutto Rossellini conference
- Interview from 2009 with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà
- Interview from 2009 with Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Padre padrone) in which they discuss the profound influence Rossellini’s films have had on them
- Roberto and Roswitha, a 2009 illustrated essay by film scholar Thomas Meder on Rossellini’s relationship with his mistress Roswitha Schmidt
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Collector's Set
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini from 1963
- Italian-release opening credits and voice-over prologue
- 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
- Letters from the Front: Carlo Lizzani on “Germany Year Zero,” a discussion with Lizzani from the 1987 Tutto Rossellini conference
- Interview from 2009 with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà
- Interview from 2009 with Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Padre padrone) in which they discuss the profound influence Rossellini’s films have had on them
- Roberto and Roswitha, a 2009 illustrated essay by film scholar Thomas Meder on Rossellini’s relationship with his mistress Roswitha Schmidt
Cast
- Edmund Meschke
- Edmund Koehler
- Ernst Pittschau
- His father
- Ingetraud Hinze
- Eva
- Franz Krüger
- Karl-Heinz
- Erich Gühne
- Henning, the teacher
Credits
- Director
- Roberto Rossellini
- Produced by
- Roberto Rossellini
- Story and screenplay by
- Roberto Rossellini
- with the collaboration of
- Max Colpet
- with the collaboration of
- Carlo Lizzani
- Photographed by
- Robert Juillard
- Sets
- Piero Filippone
- Editors
- Anne-Marie Findeisen
- Editors
- Eraldo Da Roma
- Music by
- Renzo Rossellini
- Sound by
- Kurt Doubrawsky
- Assistant directors
- Max Colpet
- Assistant directors
- Carlo Lizzani
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