Sunday 13 December 2020

Germania anno zero (1948)



 
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.

Filmed among the ruins of post WWII Berlin and with a remarkable cast of German actors this film presents a realistic, albeit devastatingly bleak and tragic view of life after the catastrophe of war.
 
Halliwell*: "Both realistic and pessimistic, this depressing film has a savage power of its own but totally fails to be constructive."

Maltin***1/2: "Shattering neorealist masterpiece...Heartbreaking story of a childhood tragically, irrevocably tainted, with a devastating finale." 
 

 

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