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ROBERTO ROSSELLINI: COLLECTOR'S SERIES
complete 2-disc edition

 DOVE LA LIBERTA...? (1954) 
imdb.com/title/tt0044562/
User Rating: 7.1/10   106 votes

Italië
Drama
93 minuten

geregisseerd door Roberto Rossellini
met Totò, Vera Molnár en Ines Florentini

De kapper Salvatore wordt vrijgelaten uit de gevangenis. Hij heeft 20 jaar gezeten wegens het plegen van een passionele moord. Eenmaal vrij merkt hij dat de wereld erg veranderd is. Salvatore kan zich niet aanpassen aan de nieuwe maatschappij en als zelfs zijn eigen familie hem hypocriet benadert, besluit hij dat het beter is om terug achter de tralies te verdwijnen.


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ERA NOTTE A ROMA (1960)
imdb.com/title/tt0052781/
User Rating: 7.1/10   134 votes

Italië / Frankrijk
Drama / Oorlog
138 minuten

geregisseerd door Roberto Rossellini
met Peter Baldwin, Giovanna Ralli en Sergei Bondarchuk

Verhaal over drie geallieerde krijgsgevangenen die ontsnappen en zich schuil houden in Rome. Een mooie, jonge vrouw biedt hen onderdak en de drie (een Rus, een Engelsman en een Amerikaan) raken in een strijd om haar te veroveren. Ook hun nationalistische gevoelens beginnen langzaamaan een rol te spelen.


Studio: LionsGate

DVD Release Date: November 11, 2008


Director: Roberto Rossellini


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This dark satire gets our vote as the most scandalously unknown of Rossellini's films; it's something of a masterpiece and deserves a wide audience. (See it now, as you may never have another chance.) Designed to showcase the great Neapolitan comic Toto`, he of the thrust chin, elastic limbs, and pinball eyes, DOVE LA LIBERTA...? is an exploration of the themes of imprisonment and freedom, told (unusually for Rossellini) in flashback. Toto` plays Salvatore, a sweet-natured Roman barber who has been in prison for twenty years after he cut the throat of his best friend for having an affair with his wife. Released into a very different world than the one he knew, Salvatore encounters a series of perfidious tricksters, cold-hearted con men, and greedy schemers. Friends and family offer no refuge; they, too, are treacherous. Like so many of Rossellini's characters, the decent Salvatore finds the world untenable, and takes drastic action to ensure that he does not have to suffer its iniquity any longer.

Working in a far more serious mode than he was accustomed to, Toto` is superb as the artless barber, who some critics have seen as a variation on the character of the saintly, isolated Irene in EUROPA 51, while others have condemned as spiritual sibling to Celestino in THE MACHINE TO KILL BAD PEOPLE - a self-appointed arbiter of morality with bourgeois notions of innocence. "For my taste, Rossellini's best film, and of the few I completely love... It stupefied me with its cruelty and bitterness. It's a parable of the purest Swiftian type, unpitying and almost intolerable" (Pierre Kast, Cahiers du cine'ma).


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 4.10 + 6.50 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (total): 91 + 133 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Pictureboxed Widescreen

Sound (main feature): Italian DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English | Spanish



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