Germany, Year Zero (1948)
- Original title
- Germania anno zero
- Directed by
- Roberto Rossellini
- Genre
- drama film, art film
- Country
- Germany, France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 426 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A twelve-year-old boy tries to survive in the ruined city of Berlin after World War II. He struggles with poverty, desperation, and moral choices in a broken society.
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What happens
Germany, Year Zero (Italian: Germania anno zero) is a 1948 film directed by Roberto Rossellini. It follows the life of a twelve-year-old boy in post World War II Germany. It won the Golden Leopard and the Best Director awards at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1948. As in many neorealist films, Rossellini used mainly local, non-professional actors. He filmed on locations in Berlin and intended to convey the reality in Germany the year after its near total destruction in World War II. It contains dramatic images of bombed out Berlin and of the human struggle for survival following the destruction of Nazi Germany. When explaining his ideas about realism in an interview, he said, "realism is nothing other than the artistic form of truth." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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