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Director:
Writers:
Roberto Rossellini (story)
Max Kolpé (screenplay)
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Release Date:
19 September 1949 (USA) more
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Plot:
Edmund, a young boy who lives in the destructed Germany after the 2nd World War has to do all kinds... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins more
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(3 articles)
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Cast

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Edmund Moeschke ... Edmund (as Edmund Meschke)
Ernst Pittschau ... Il padre
Ingetraud Hinze ... Eva (as Ingetraud Hinz)
Franz-Otto Krüger ... Karl-Heinz (as Franz Grüger)
Erich Gühne ... Il maestro
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Germany Year Zero (USA)
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Runtime:
78 min | Brazil:71 min | USA:71 min (TCM print)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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The film is dedicated to Romano Rosselini, Roberto Rossellini's son who died prematurely in 1946. more
Quotes:
Edmund: Eva, they're cutting the power.
Eva: The power? Why?
Edmund: They discovered someone was stealing it.
Eva: Who?
Karl-Heinz: Someone.
Edmund: Rademaker says it was us.
Karl-Heinz: As usual.
Eva: So that's what he was screaming about.
Karl-Heinz: That black marketer. One day I'll smash his head.
Eva: You're such a big talker, but when it comes to helping us, you do nothing.
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Rossellini's great post-war, neo-realist masterpiece, 31 July 2000
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Author: berlinkubaner from Berlin &S.Paulo

This masterpiece, filmed while the action and subject matter of the film, was at its most intense, is a must see. Featuring non-professional actors, in the neo-realist style which defined post-war Italian cinema, you will experience a lyrical view of Germany, actually devastated Berlin. This is how it was at Hour Zero, or "Anno Zero" when new currency was introduced, and the economy started again from scratch with each German receiving the same (very little) cash to rebuild their lives, and indeed their country. The film has magnificent scenes including the voice of Adolf Hitler coming from a record player among the ruins of the Chancellery, deaths in gutted buildings, and several especially poignant scenes of the young boy who has known nothing but misery during his few years of life, yet continues his fight to survive.

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