Germania anno Zero

original title:
Germania anno Zero
other titles:
(Deutschland im Jahre Null), Germany Year Zero, Allemagne année zéro
country / year of production:
Italy , Germany / 1947
original length:
78 min. , black/white
premiere:
USA: 19 September 1949
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Roberto Rossellini
film script:
Roberto Rossellini , Carlo Lizzani , Max Kolpé
producer:
Roberto Rossellini , Alfredo Guarini
cinematographer:
Robert Juillard
editor:
Eraldo Da Roma
composer:
Renzo Rossellini
cast (role):
Edmund Moeschke (Edmund Koeler ) , Ingetraud Hinze (Eva Koeler ) , Franz-Otto Krüger (Karl-Heinz Koeler ) , Ernst Pittschau (Vater Koeler ) , Erich Gühne (Herr Enning, Lehrer (teacher)) , Edmund Moeschke , Ingetraud Hinze , Franz-Otto Krüger , Ernst Pittschau , Erich Gühne
more:
plot synopsis:
Immediately after the Second World War in the destroyed and corrupt city of Berlin: Edmund, a youth filled with Nietzsche ideas and Nazi ideology is influenced by his former, homosexual teacher kills his ailing father and commits suicide.
keywords:
children , post-war era , execution , women of the rubble
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Adriano Aprà (ed.). Il dopoguerra di Rossellini. Roma: Cinecittà international, 1995. 238 p.

Klaus Kreimeier. "Germania anno zero". In: EPD-Film 12 (1995), 6, 16-25.
remarks:
The combination of the oppressive documentary of life in the ruins of Berlin and the family-drama is not very convincing. But as an example of Italian neorealism and considering the complete works of Rosseline this film is of interest.
availability:
VHS, DVD