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Bookmark this pageGermany, Year Zero (1947)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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From Time Out Film Guide
A long opening tracking shot through Berlin's ruins under the Occupation in 1945 is both documentary and a hallucinatory voyage through a stone age city, the perfect illustration that realist film can also forge fantasy. It sparks against the story of a thirteen-year-old boy who works the black market, sells Hitler souvenirs for chewing-gum, and who will kill his sick father out of naïve mercy and regard for the whisperings of his old Nazi teacher. A horror movie that declines to tease. DMacp.Author: DMacp
Cast & crew
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Producer: Alfredo Guarini
Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Werner Pittschau, Barbara Hintz, Franz Krüger, Erich Gühne, Alexandra Manys full cast
Duration: 74 mins
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