Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
Year: 1945
Time: 103 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 497
Licensor
Cinecitta
Release Date: Tuesday, 11 July 2017
MSRP: $99.95
(Box set exclusive)
Blu-ray
1 Disc
1.37:1
Italian PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region A
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