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Germany Year Zero

Germania anno zero

★ Editor's Pick

Roberto Rossellini  ·  Italy / France / West Germany  ·  1948

DramaWar 1940s

In the ruins of postwar Berlin, twelve-year-old Edmund struggles to help his destitute family survive amid rubble and black-market subsistence. Corrupted by a former teacher who still mouths Nazi ideology, the boy poisons his ailing father to relieve his family of a burden — and then faces the full horror of what he has done. The final chapter of Rossellini's War Trilogy is his bleakest, a requiem for a continent's poisoned children.

Language

Italian, German

Cast

Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne

Awards

  • Golden Leopard — Locarno International Film Festival (1948)