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Germany Year Zero
Germania anno zero
★ Editor's Pick
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)