Year Zero in a divided Germany. With his father too ill to work his soldier brother terrified of being arrested as a war criminal and his sister reduced to cadging cigarettes from occupying troops 12 year old Edmund scours Berlin for any work he can find. However a meeting with his disgraced teacher who still clings to his Nazi ideals suggests a hideous solution to his problems. Completeing the war trilogy that Roberto Rossellini started with Rome Open City and Paisa this is one of the masterpieces of neo-realism. Unflinchingly depicting the dehumanising impact of... defeat on a guilt-ridden nation this harrowing study of social disintegration is held together by an exeptional performance by Edmund Moeschke a circus hand who had never acted before and was chosen because he resembled Rossellini's recently deceased son Romano to whom the film is dedicated. [show more]
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Roberto Rossellini's moving account of life in post-war Germany tells the story of a 13-year old black marketeer who poisons his ailing father out of pity and necessity.
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