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19 September 1949 (USA)
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Edmund, a young boy who lives in the destructed Germany after the 2nd World War has to do all kinds...
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DVD: Review:Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy: Rome Open City / Paisan / Germany Year Zero
(From The AV Club. 2 February 2010, 10:01 PM, PST)
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(Complete credited cast)| 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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Germany Year Zero (USA)
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78 min | Brazil:71 min | USA:71 min (TCM print)
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According to his autobiography, Klaus Kinski went in to audition for an unspecified part for Roberto Rossellini when he came to Berlin. He claims that after hours of waiting while Rossellini was on the phone with Anna Magnani in another room, Kinski characteristically burst out in anger and cursed Rossellini. The Italian director was reputedly heard saying as Kinski was storming out: "Chi è quello? Mi interessa! Fategli un provo!" (Translation: "Who is he? Interesting! Arrange for a screen test!")
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What do they teach you in school now? Democracy?
Edmund: I don't go to school anymore.
Il maestro: Why not? You don't like the new teachers?
Edmund: I have to work now.
Il maestro: Work? Why?
Edmund: There are four of us at home, and we only have three food cards.
Il maestro: Poor Edmund. Why doesn't your brother have a card?
Edmund: He never registered. He fought in the streets until the Allied troops arrived.
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Edmund: I don't go to school anymore.
Il maestro: Why not? You don't like the new teachers?
Edmund: I have to work now.
Il maestro: Work? Why?
Edmund: There are four of us at home, and we only have three food cards.
Il maestro: Poor Edmund. Why doesn't your brother have a card?
Edmund: He never registered. He fought in the streets until the Allied troops arrived.
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Featured in Rossellini visto da Rossellini (1992)
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After watching "Roma, città aperta" in the 1970's and "Paisà" in the late 1980's, I finally saw "Germania anno zero", the last part of Roberto Rossellini's war trilogy. Compared to the first two installments, they all share the immediacy of the war, but this time Rossellini is more direct: no subplots, only a handful of characters, all of whom move around young Edmund (Edmund Mëschke), the 12-year-old German boy who lives in a miserable apartment with five other families, and who maintains his sick father, his brother who was a Nazi soldier and his sister, who is close to becoming a prostitute. Edmund pretends he's old enough to work, but when he's denied that opportunity, he steals, sells items in the black market, or allows his former teacher to caress him lasciviously for a few marks. What's more impressive in this film is the lack of sentimentality compared to De Sica's children movies- and the absence of preaching: when one character does preach, he would have better stayed shut! I think that many scholars are no longer interested in the aesthetics of Italian Neorealism, butin my appreciation- Roberto Rossellini is one of the big names in the history of cinema, far more important than other filmmakers who are idolized, and his war films are more interesting to me than overrated later works as "Voyage in Italy".