Germania, anno zero (1948)

Directors

Roberto Rossellini

Cast

Edmund Meschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Kühne, Heidi Blänkner, Jo Herbst, Barbara Hintz, Adolf Hitler, Karl Krüger, Alexandra Manys, Babsi Reckewell, Hans Sangen

The story

Twelve-year-old Edmund Köhler lives in devastated, Allied-occupied Berlin with his ailing, bedridden father and his adult siblings, Eva and Karl-Heinz. Eva manages to obtain cigarettes by going out with Allied soldiers, but resists others' expectations to prostitute herself. Karl-Heinz, the older son, is a burden to the struggling family as he refuses to register with the police and obtain a ration card, fearing punishment by the authorities for his prior service in the Wehrmacht.

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