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Germany Year Zero | Year: 1949 Classification: Foreign Film - Italian Directed: - Roberto Rossellini Post apocalyptic wasteland Too bad has to be in Italian rather than the original German. Scenes of devastated Berlin are limited. European depiction of life at its basest, a decimated civilization trying to rebuild itself as the elements responsible for its downfall dominate. Not as harsh as might be expected. A Major Neo-Realist Work in Need of Restoration. GERMANIA ANNO ZERO is a film made in the Neo-Realist tradition by the Neo-Realist master Roberto Rossellini. It tells the simple but powerful story of Edmund - a boy trying to survive between the ruins of Berlin right after WWII. His family is as ruined as the city he lives in: his father is confined to a bed, his older brother fears prosecution for his Nazi past and his sister is a prostitute. Just like everybody else, Edmund manages to get some money from selling the things he finds here and there on the ruins; until one day he runs into his old school teacher: an old man who still preaches the Nazi ideology and defends the elimination of the weak. Influenced by those ideas, Edmund poisons his own father. This is a powerful film that shows like no other the horrors of war (and the Nazi insanity) that inevitably destroy the lives of the ordinary inhabitants of the city. Rossellini, with his keen eye for detail (and his unique taste in composition), makes an impressive portrait of a chaotic city of empty ruins and basic survival. GERMANIA ANNO ZERO is the third and final film in Rossellini's famous Neo-Realist war trilogy and is as strong and poignant as the others: OPEN CITY (ROMA CITTÀ APERTA) and PAISAN (PAISÀ). ...On the down side, this is a film that (like many european masterpieces) badly needs a restoration. There are print demages and the sound sounds like it was recorded a decade before. Buy Germany Year Zero at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Germany Year Zero Search with the Priority Search Engine on Germany Year Zero This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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