Germany Year Zero Comments

  • Kirsten 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    4.5. Commemorating my son's work. "Stop running away, admitting fate is not a shameful thing." Survival was difficult after the war, and hospital room and board were better. Fragmented Berlin, even after the war is over, the Nazis (discs of teachers and Hitler's speeches) still linger. Children devastated by war. Grave digging at the beginning - suicide at the...

  • Tamara 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The last, and most inward, part of the trilogy, we can see Rossellini's entire creative flow towards psychological...

  • Mozelle 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The pedophilia point of the teacher and doctor is uncomfortable until I see Hitler's speech recorded on vinyl before I understand that they refer to the Nazis, which is wonderful. The realism of Neorealism is based on extremely refined and refined compositional images. Rossinelli made this movie full of grief and anger after his 11-year-old son passed away. Although it is very sad, I really envy the creator @...

  • Armando 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The deepest impression is the sense of presence brought by the live-action shooting, which is decadent and suffocating; among the famous neorealists, Rossellini is regarded as a rather cold-hearted person. You can say that he is pessimistic, or you can say that he has insight into the essence of wartime distortion. , In the bottom purgatory where poverty spreads, there is no redemption at all. When the sudden sound of the piano brought a few seconds of hope, he still chose to let the children,...

  • Dayana 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The collapse of the post-war social system makes the prevailing patriotism questioned, the "collective" is facing a crisis of disintegration, the individual is forced to return to the atomic state, and the newly established small group maintains a keen rejection and suspicion of dissent, so the boy is in the Different groups are separated from each other and cannot be integrated, and the social system can be reproduced visually; at the same time, instrumental rationality has become an emerging...

  • Clemmie 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The third part of Rossellini's post-war trilogy, from Italy in "War" to the defeated Germany, a little boy whose mood is completely integrated into the wandering ruins of Berlin The great tragedy is not over yet, but also in memory of the director's son who died prematurely. Restoration of the...

  • Nico 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    Rossellini is good at grasping the details in the macro, first shutting the characters in a small space, and finally the vision of the ruins of Berlin, the child will die for this...

  • Kole 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    8.5, a war movie from a real children's perspective, there is no love here at all. The ruins of Germany under the ruins are simply a natural curtain of neorealism. This kind of texture cannot be created by any studio restoration. It is no wonder that these Italian masters must The camera is placed on the real street, and I really like the last ten minutes of Edmund wandering the streets and buildings like a ghost, pushing the boy's disillusionment to the extreme. It is indeed a...

  • Anthony 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The motion long shots of this movie are so beautiful, nothing to...

  • Keenan 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    I have only seen two Italian neorealist films, one is about a bike thief and the other is this one. I hate films that destroy children. Edmund did not give up hope of life with the fiasco in Berlin, but Killed his father because of unsustainable livelihoods in reconstruction. When he walks into the ruins at the end of the film and shoots himself in the head with a pistol-like part, he is already determined to say goodbye to the world. Hey, half-baked...

Extended Reading

Germany Year Zero quotes

  • Karl-Heinz: Who gave you money to buy cigarettes?

    Edmund: It was a gift.

    Karl-Heinz: From who? Those bad boys you go stealing with?

    Edmund: It wasn't boys. It was a girl.

    Karl-Heinz: You should be ashamed of yourself.

    Edmund: Why? Everybody does it.

    Karl-Heinz: That's not a reason.

    Edmund: Her name is Christl. She's all alone, and she sleeps in a basement. She's a nice girl. I like her. She gives cigarettes to all her friends. You should have a woman to take care of you.

    Karl-Heinz: A woman? That's all I need. Like this bitch of a life wasn't enough.

    Edmund: Don't talk like that! Have courage!

    Karl-Heinz: I had courage. A soldier can lose everything but his courage. But now I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm less than useless, another mouth to feed.

  • Il medico: His heart is very weak. His whole condition is bad.

    Eva: What can we do?

    Il medico: He needs nutritrious foods, vitamins.

    Eva: How can we do that, Doctor?

    Edmund: With the cards we have, we can't get more

    Il medico: Yes, I know. It's the same all over. The best thing would be to get him into a hospital. But they are all more than full.

    Karl-Heinz: Couldn't we at least try, Doctor?

    Il medico: Cases worse than his have not been admitted.

Germany Year Zero

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Language: German,English,French Release date: September 19, 1949