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Germany, Year Zero (Italian: Germania anno zero) is a 1948 film directed by Roberto Rossellini, and is the final film in Rossellini's unofficial war film trilogy, following Rome, Open City and Paisà.
Germany Year Zero: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger. A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
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- Drama
- Roberto Rossellini
- 1949-09-19
Germany Year Zero is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual. The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.
- Edmund Koehler
In the devastated remains of post-war Germany, 12-year-old Edmund (Edmund Moeschke) lives with his family and five other families in a battered apartment. His brother, a former Nazi, evades the...
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- Ernst Pittschau
- Roberto Rossellini
- Drama, War
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin. Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War, must do all kinds of work to help his family get food and survive.
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1948 • France, Italy, West Germany. Starring Edmund Meschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze. The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.
Jan 25, 2010 · The Humanity of the Defeated. U nlike the more aesthetically and intellectually conceived French New Wave, Italian neorealism was above all an ethical initiative—a way of saying that people were important, occasioned by a war that made many of them voiceless, faceless, and nameless victims.