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The home video edition, distributed by Istituto Luce Cinecittà and edited by Vera Fazio presents the DVD of the restored film and a booklet with textual and photographic apparatus. It contains introductory notes by Sergio Toffetti, Felice Laudadio, Adriano Aprà, Claude Lelouch. The texts about Moreno are written by Marco Greco (director of Moreno Museum), Maria Cristina Sidoni, Ottavio Rosati (director of IPOD School of Specialization in Psychodrama) and Paola de Leonardis.

In Paris in October '56, the father of Modern Cinema and the Father of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Psychocinema met in the French Radio and Television headquarters to experiment with the possibilities of psychodrama associated with shooting on the new television support. It is the meeting of expressive avant-gardes and analysis of the mind and behaviors. The result is the first work by Roberto Rossellini for TV, before absolute masterpieces. It marks the director's ability to always be on the frontier. For one of the curious and extraordinary cases in the history of cinema, "Psychodrame" remains unpublished in the archives, and handed down as one of the master's many unrealized projects. Decades later, in 2017, through an intersection of information between Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger - Moreno's assistant - the Moreno Museum Association and the CSC-Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa, they were found at the INA- Institut National de l'Audiovisuel , the materials of a complete and in fact unpublished work, which marks a moment of passage in Rosselli's work.

"Psychodrame," by Jacob Levi Moreno, directed by Roberto Rossellini in 1956, sees among the credits as an operator a young talent of the time, a boy named Claude Lelouch. Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger (one of the most important Moreno's pupil) organize the meeting dedicated to a group of actors. The result doesn't represent a real, classic psychodrama but is an important event of the history of television and of psychodrama that will culminate in the italian program of Rai3 Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991).

In 2018 Maria Cristina Sidoni and Marco Greco, director of Torino Psychodrama Institute, were informed about an experimental film produced by RTF in Paris 1956 (which everyone believed had disappeared) directed by Roberto Rossellini and filmed by a young Claude Lelouch, about an experiment of psychodrama for actors directed in Paris by Jacob Levi Moreno. Also participating in this first psychodrama experiment in television is the famous Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger, the student of Moreno who would become famous throughout the world for her research on the inter-generational transmission of the unconscious in families. In the video, Schutzenberger, urged by RTF officials, often repeats the french words "Vite! Vite" (Quick! Quick!) to speed up work times. The same French phrase (which in Italian also means "Life" is also present in a dream of Ottavio Rosati enacted in his [link0tt9278818] a psychodrama realized 35 years later for the TV program Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) produceded by Rai3 and inspired to Moreno's Psychocinema. It is the only story of the series that investigates the inter-generational unconscious.