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Germany, Year Zero

A soldier can lose everything but his courage.

7.6(439)19481h 14m4

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

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Status
Released
Budget
$115K
Box office
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Language
English
  • berlin, germany
  • nazi
  • world war ii
  • post war
  • kids
  • neo realism
  • italian neo realism

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Behind the camera

Produced in

France, Germany, Italy

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR19 Sept 1949
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival9 Mar 1953
  • BrazilBR

    • PhysicalDVD28 Apr 2017
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP2 Feb 1949
    • PhysicalDVD15 Dec 1999
    • TheatricalRe-release27 May 2015
    • Digital / OTTVOD1 Mar 2020
    • TheatricalRe-release30 Jun 2021
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical1 Dec 1948
    • TheatricalTurin25 Mar 1949
  • RussiaRU

    • Physical16+DVD6 Aug 2008
  • SpainES

    • TV31 Jan 1985
    • PhysicalDVD3 Aug 2007
    • TheatricalBarcelona & Madrid3 Jul 2015
    • TheatricalA Coruña13 Apr 2021
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • PremiereLocarno Film Festival9 Jul 1948
    • TheatricalItalian-speaking region11 Jul 1948
    • PremiereLocarno Film Festival13 Aug 2020

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Germany, Year Zero was released on 11 July 1948.

Audience reviews

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    talisencrw

    7/31/2016

    9/10

    What an awful position the despicable Nazis left their descendants at the close of the Second World War. Rossellini has the perfect, objective, almost documentarian painterly hand in his depiction of this, and I have the feeling that only someone from one of the losing Axis countries, such as he, could so astutely and profoundly bring across such a feeling of loss and guilt that haunted these 'survivors'. A very sad …

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    7/9/2022

    7/10

    Edmund Moeschke ("Edmund") is superb in this gritty and authentic looking post-war story of a young boy struggling, with his family, to make ends meet in Berlin after the fall of the Nazis. Scrounging, scrimping, scavenging - all to try and keep his ailing father and the rest of his family fed and warm. It is tightly cast and the scenarios - filmed just three years after the allies reduced much of the city to rubble …

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