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Germany, Year Zero
Germany, Year Zero

7.7

Germany, Year Zero

NR·1948·72m

Summary

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

Crew

Director, Dialogue, Screenplay

Roberto Rossellini

Dialogue

Max Kolpé

Writer

Sergio Amidei

Writer

Carlo Lizzani

Reviews

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July 31, 2016

9

What an awful position the despicable Nazis left their descendants at the close of the Second World War. Rossellini has the perfect, objective, almost documentarian painterly hand in his depiction of this, and I have the feeling that only someone from one of the losing Axis countries, such as he, could so astutely and profoundly bring across such a feeling of loss and guilt that haunted these 'survivors'. A very sad film to watch, yet at the very same time necessary and healing. Clearly my favourite of his works, next to his magnificent 'The Flowers of St. Francis'.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Keywords

berlin, germany
nazi
post war
child
neo realism
italian neo realism