Jo gives Edmund some of his stolen potatoes and leaves the inexperienced boy with Christl, whom another member of their gang describes as a mattress that dispenses cigarettes.Īfter Mr. Afterward, Edmund tags along as the young man Jo steals 40 marks from a woman by pretending to sell her a bar of soap. Henning gives Edmund 10 marks for his work. Henning gives him a recording of Hitler to sell to the occupying soldiers, entrusting him to the more experienced Jo and Christl. By chance, Edmund meets Herr Henning, his former school teacher, who still remains a Nazi at heart.
Rademacher's irritation.Įdmund does what he can for his family, trying to find work and selling a scale for Mr. The Köhlers and others have been assigned to the apartment home of the Rademachers by the housing authority, much to Mr. Karl-Heinz is the older son who fought in the war and is a burden to the struggling family, refusing to register with the police and get a ration card because he is afraid of what would happen if they found out he fought to the bitter end. Eva manages to obtain cigarettes by going out with soldiers of the Allied forces, but she resists others' expectations to prostitute herself. Twelve-year-old Edmund Köhler lives in devastated, Allied-occupied Berlin with his ailing, bedridden father and his adult siblings, Eva and Karl-Heinz.
When explaining his ideas about realism in an interview, he said, "realism is nothing other than the artistic form of truth." Plot It contains dramatic images of bombed out Berlin and of the human struggle for survival following the destruction of Nazi Germany. 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. Germany Year Zero takes place in Allied-occupied Germany, unlike the others, which take place in German-occupied Rome and during the Allied invasion of Italy, respectively.Īs in many neorealist films, Rossellini used mainly local, non-professional actors. Germany, Year Zero ( Italian: Germania anno zero) is a 1948 film directed by Roberto Rossellini, and is the final film in Rossellini's unofficial war film trilogy, following Rome, Open City and Paisà.
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