Germany, Year Zero

Germany, Year Zero

1948 · 72 min · IT · NR · 7.7 (320 votes)
Dir. Roberto Rossellini · Starring Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne, Heidi Blänkner · Music Renzo Rossellini

A soldier can lose everything but his courage.

Drama

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.

VIBE

A stark, unflinching look at a child navigating the rubble of a broken world. It's a deeply humanistic, yet devastating, portrait of survival and moral compromise in the face of utter devastation.

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