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Germany Year Zero is the final part of Rossellini's great neo-realist war trilogy, (which also includes Rome, Open City and Paisa). The long opening tracking shot through the devastated streets of Berlin under the Occupation in 1945 sets the almost hallucinatory tone, with the focus of the story being a 13-year-old boy's degradation under the social conditions of the defeated city. Rossellini knew that in war, everyone is a victim. Martin Scorsese once said about the film, 'I see this film as a prayer from Rossellini to the postwar world, a prayer for compassion.'
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Roberto Rosselini's thought provoking study of post-war Germany. It tells the story of Edmund a young boy coming to terms with his changing role in the society of the time. Although slow and often deeply depressing it has gathered its fans over the years for its powerful vision and is now considered to be one of the greatest and most tragic stories ever told. Not a film for everyone although I would recommend it to those who are interested in cinema historically and culturally.
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If You Can Take Such an Unvarnished Look at Life in a Defeated Nation
10 May 2013
By Stephanie DePue
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GERMANY YEAR ZERO, (1948), (78 minutes), is one of a trilogy of World War II films by the towering Italian master director Roberto Rossellini. It is available as a free-standing DVD, like this one, or in the recent release of Criterion Collection: Rossellini's War Trilogy that presents us with clean, remastered copies of these three memorable films. GERMANY YEAR ZERO is, like the other films in this trilogy, in black and white. In the trilogy, we can see Rossellini invent Italian neo-realism on the screen; he had to, as, at the time he was working, Italy and Germany were nearly destroyed by World War II bombing, there was very little infrastructure left, and it was hard to get film, filmmaking equipment - and everything else. Thus, the director worked with natural light and sound. The trilogy also presents many informative extras: interviews with Rossellini's actress daughter Isabella; interviews with many of the films' actors, and film scholars, and "Once Upon a Time . . . Rome Open City," a 2006 documentary on the making of Rossellini's most influential, important film.
GERMANY YEAR ZERO was filmed on location in Berlin shortly after war's end. It was financed by German firms, and gives us a horrifying snapshot of the misery of civilian life in war-ravaged Berlin shortly after the war. The concluding chapter of the war trilogy is devastatingly intense and effective, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin shown through the eyes of Edmund Kohler, a twelve-year-old boy whom Rossellini told interviewers strongly resembled his own son, who had been dead for a year at the time of filming.... Read more ›
GERMANY YEAR ZERO was filmed on location in Berlin shortly after war's end. It was financed by German firms, and gives us a horrifying snapshot of the misery of civilian life in war-ravaged Berlin shortly after the war. The concluding chapter of the war trilogy is devastatingly intense and effective, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin shown through the eyes of Edmund Kohler, a twelve-year-old boy whom Rossellini told interviewers strongly resembled his own son, who had been dead for a year at the time of filming.... Read more ›
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great film! one of the most important italian's film, important example of postwar, see Berlin destroyed is impressive! perfect packaging and very fast shipping
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