Edumnd Meschke as a 12-year-old in postwar Berlin in “Germany Year Zero.” Rossellini had moral courage to find sorrow whre others had understandably found horror. By DAVE KEHR Published: January 22, 2010
Had to give this a quick mention Roberto Rossellini‘s War Trilogy (Rome Open City/Paisan/Germany Year Zero) recently released by Criterion Collection as a box set – classic war films, and certainly some of the best war films in my opinion; all the more fascinating as they were made very shortly after the war finished. Worth seeing if you have never seen them before, and this release is remastered by the Criterion Collection is going to be of the highest quality.
Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy (Rome Open City/Paisan/Germany Year Zero) (Criterion Collection)
Other films of note that where made in the immediate period after the war are:
- Theirs Is the Glory [DVD-PAL] ( Men of Arnhem 1946 )
– a docu film featuring many of the men who actually fought in the battle.
- The Bridge (Die Brucke) [DVD-PAL] [1959]
– German made film.
LINK from NY Times : In Rossellini’s War Movies, the Naturalism Survives
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