Germany Year Zero (1948)
(Germania anno zero)
Country: IT
Technical: bw 78m
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze
Synopsis:
Struggling to survive in the ruins of post-war Germany and provide food for his family, a small boy meets a former teacher who bears the promise of aid but from whom he encounters only abuse.
Review:
The bleakest of Rossellini's war trilogy for the fate it holds up to the children of Europe, this film differs from many neo-realist dramas in showing how the worst aspects of humanity surface when men are deprived of hope; children are still the focus, but the logic of their destruction in view of the influences around them is staggeringly inevitable.
(Germania anno zero)
Country: IT
Technical: bw 78m
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze
Synopsis:
Struggling to survive in the ruins of post-war Germany and provide food for his family, a small boy meets a former teacher who bears the promise of aid but from whom he encounters only abuse.
Review:
The bleakest of Rossellini's war trilogy for the fate it holds up to the children of Europe, this film differs from many neo-realist dramas in showing how the worst aspects of humanity surface when men are deprived of hope; children are still the focus, but the logic of their destruction in view of the influences around them is staggeringly inevitable.
(Germania anno zero)
Country: IT
Technical: bw 78m
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze
Synopsis:
Struggling to survive in the ruins of post-war Germany and provide food for his family, a small boy meets a former teacher who bears the promise of aid but from whom he encounters only abuse.
Review:
The bleakest of Rossellini's war trilogy for the fate it holds up to the children of Europe, this film differs from many neo-realist dramas in showing how the worst aspects of humanity surface when men are deprived of hope; children are still the focus, but the logic of their destruction in view of the influences around them is staggeringly inevitable.