Germany Year Zero
Germania anno zero
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In the pulverized, rubble-strewn ruins of post-war Berlin in 1947, a 12-year-old German boy scrounges for food to support his ailing father and black-market siblings, tragically poisoned by the social Darwinist ideology whispered by his former Nazi schoolmaster into poisoning his father before leaping to his death from a bombed building. Roberto Rossellini's Locarno Grand Prix-winning culmination of his war trilogy.
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