Description
Features Fellini's 8 1/2, OPen City & Rocco & His Brothers.
Experience the very best of Italian cinema with this must-own collection of landmark Italian films on DVD. Featuring the most prestigious directors in Italian cinema history, including Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti, these are films to cherish for a lifetime.
8 ½ (1963)
Fellini's Academy Award-winning masterpiece remains one of the great films about moviemaking. A film director (Marcello Mastroianni) retreats into a world of memories, dreams and fantasies to escape his stifling career and family. The result is both surreal and dazzling, marking 8 ½ as the quintessential Fellini film.
Rocco and his Brothers (1960)
Starring Alain Delon (Le Samourai) and Claudia Cardinale (81/2), Luchino Visconti's neo-realist masterpiece is a compelling chronicle of class war, personal downfall and family disintegration as a poor southern Italian family struggles to adjust to life in the industrial city of Milan. Inspiring the work of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, the film won numerous international awards and remains a milestone of Italian cinema.
Open City (1945)
Filmed in the still war-torn streets of Rome shortly after the Nazi withdrawal, Roberto Rossellini's Open City is considered his greatest work and the defining example of Italian neo-realist cinema. Shot on scavenged ends of film, this classic war saga went on to win the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1946.
