Germany, Year Zero

Germany, Year Zero Italian Germania anno zero is a 1948 film directed by Roberto Rossellini, and is the final film in Rossellinis unofficial war film trilogy, following Rome, Open City and Pais. Germany Year Zero takes place in postwar Germany, unlike the others, which take place in Germanoccupied Rome and during the Allied invasion of Italy, respectively.

Thirteenyearold Edmund Kohler lives in devastated, postWorld War II Berlin with his ailing, bedridden father and his adult siblings, Eva and KarlHeinz. Eva manages to obtain cigarettes by going out with soldiers of the Allied forces, but she resists her friends advice to prostitute herself. KarlHeinz 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. The Kohlers and others have been assigned to the apartment home of the Rademachers by the housing authority, much to Mr. Rademachers irritation.Edmund does what he can for his family, trying to find work and selling a scale for Mr. Rademacher on the black market. By chance, Edmund meets Herr Henning, his former school teacher, who still remains a Nazi at heart. Henning, who exhibits what may be interpreted as a pedophilic interest in Edmund, gives him a recording of Hitler to sell to the occupying soldiers, entrusting him to the more experienced Jo and Christl. Henning gives Edmundmarks for his work. Afterward, Edmund tags along as the young man Jo stealsmarks from a woman by pretending to sell her a bar of soap. 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. ........

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