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- Lulled into a floating film diary of non-dramatic moments that delineate and stray off the causal action-reaction stepping stones we have been trained to follow, Germany, Year Zero confronts its audience with a seminal psycho-visual assault, shutting the door on the traditional film-audience relationship and creating a space of unresolved uncertainty in its raw-edged immediacy.
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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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Jan 25, 2010 · The fact that a portion of Germany Year Zero was shot in Rome between November 1947 and January 1948—even though the story throughout has the same postwar Berlin setting—may complicate our grasp of what neorealism consisted of, but this is only part of the conundrum.
Dec 28, 2000 · The third chapter in Roberto Rossellini’s war trilogy Germany, Year Zero (1947) begins with an introductory voice-over explaining the film as the examination of the plight of a child and a people, “living in tragedy as though it were their natural element”.
Overall, Germany, Year Zero (73 minutes) bears witness and deftly documents the despair and devastation in a war-torn society through the forced maturation of a destitute child. Germany, Year Zero (1948) Links: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Letterboxd.
Germany Year Zero is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual. The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.
- Edmund Koehler
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1948 • France, Italy, West Germany. Starring Edmund Meschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze. The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.
Jan 24, 2010 · Germany Year Zero (Deutschland im Jahre Null) is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.
