Germany, Italy
1948
71 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
German
499
The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black-market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher. Germany Year Zero (Deutschland im Jahre Null) is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.
| Edmund Koehler | Edmund Meschke |
| The father | Ernst Pittschau |
| Eva | Ingetraud Hinze |
| Karl-Heinz | Franz-Martin Krüger |
| The teacher | Erich Gühne |
| Director | Roberto Rossellini |
| Producer | Roberto Rossellini |
| Screenplay | Roberto Rossellini |
| with the collaboration of | Max Colpet |
| Cinematography | Robert Juillard |
| Sets | Piero Filippone |
| Editing | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Music | Renzo Rossellini |
| Sound | Kurt Doubrawsky |
| Assistant directors | Max Colpet and Carlo Lizzani |
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