International Film: Germany Year Zero (Deutschland im Jahre Null)

Germany Year Zero (Deutschland im Jahre Null) is thee final film in Rossellini’s War Trilogy (1948) depicts a devastated Berlin seen through the eyes of a young boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his ill father and siblings, Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black-market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher. This film is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.