"Director: Roberto Rossellini"

• Viva L'Italia | DVD | (29/01/2018) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Viva L'Italias Viva l'Italia is a documentary made after the event, trying to figure out what happened. I tried to place myself in front of the events of a century ago, the way a documentarist would have done who had the good fortune to follow Garibaldi's campaign with his camera. - Roberto Rossellini To celebrate the centenary of Italy, the Italian government commissioned Rossellini to make a biopic of Giuseppe Garibaldi, one that would follow his exploits with ˜the Thousand' and their role in the country's unification. Rossellini approached the film as he had Francesco, giullare di Dio, presenting the main character in neo-realist mode, as though making a documentary. Restored by Arrow Films from the original negative, this disc marks the first UK home video release of Viva l'Italia in any format, allowing English-speaking audience to discover another Rossellini classic. Features: Brand new 2K restoration from the original negative Standard definition presentation Original Italian mono soundtracks with optional English subtitles Garibaldi, an alternate shorter cut of the film originally prepared for the US market Brand-new interview with Roberto Rossellini's assistant on the film, Ruggero Deodato, recorded exclusively for this release I Am Garibaldi , a brand-new visual essay by Tag Gallagher, author of The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini: His Life and Films Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips

• Germany Year Zero | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Year Zero in a divided Germany. With his father too ill to work his soldier brother terrified of being arrested as a war criminal and his sister reduced to cadging cigarettes from occupying troops 12 year old Edmund scours Berlin for any work he can find. However a meeting with his disgraced teacher who still clings to his Nazi ideals suggests a hideous solution to his problems. Completeing the war trilogy that Roberto Rossellini started with Rome Open City and Paisa this is one of the masterpieces of neo-realism. Unflinchingly depicting the dehumanising impact of defeat on a guilt-ridden nation this harrowing study of social disintegration is held together by an exeptional performance by Edmund Moeschke a circus hand who had never acted before and was chosen because he resembled Rossellini's recently deceased son Romano to whom the film is dedicated.

• Il Generale Della Rovere | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (39.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roberto Rossellini's box-office success after a string of commercial failures notably with Ingrid Bergman was also a return to the themes of the films which brought him international fame Rome Open City and his other neorealist classics. Based on an article by the Italian journalist Indro Montanelli Rossellini casts Vittorio De Sica as confidence trickster Emanuele Bardone who helps to save Italians arrested by the Gestapo or at least pretending to do so in exchange for money or gifts from their family. When he attempts to save a man already executed he is turned over by the man's wife and is given the choice of execution or carrying out a confidence trick for the Germans; to assume the identity of the General Della Rovere. Turning on his country to save his skin Bardone enters prison to seek out the identity of the partisan commander Fabrizio. Arrow Academy is pleased to present Roberto Rossellini's gripping resistance story with Vittorio De Sica in one of his greatest performances on DVD for the first time in the UK.