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Germany, Year Zero

Germany, Year Zero

■ Basic Data

ItemContent
Year1948
CountryItaly
DirectorRoberto Rossellini
CastEdmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
GenreDrama

■ Title Language Table

LanguageTextRomanization
EnglishGermany, Year Zero
EspañolAlemania, año ceroAlemania, ano cero
FrançaisAllemagne année zéroAllemagne annee zero
DeutschDeutschland im Jahre NullDeutschland im Jahre Null
PortuguêsAlemanha, Ano ZeroAlemanha, Ano Zero
ItalianoGermania anno zeroGermania anno zero
РусскийГермания, год нулевойGermaniya, god nulevoy
中文(简体)德意志零年
中文(繁體)德意志零年
한국어독일 영년Dogil Yeongnyeon
ไทยGermany, Year Zero
Tiếng ViệtGermany, Year Zero
Bahasa IndonesiaGermany, Year Zero
日本語ドイツ零年Doitsu Zero-nen

■ One-Line Definition

👉 A work that depicts a structure in which ruined ideology and child innocence collide within postwar moral collapse.


■ Synopsis

A boy wanders through devastated postwar Berlin while family desperation, social ruin, and poisoned beliefs close around him.


■ RECIPE Tags

#MoralRuin #ChildInnocence #PostwarCollapse #IdeologicalPoison


■ Primary Axis

  • Entry: Childhood inside ruins
     Reason: The child is placed inside a destroyed adult world with no stable moral shelter.
     Related Film: The 400 Blows
  • Middle: Survival after ideological collapse
     Reason: Defeat leaves material hunger and moral confusion where social order once stood.
     Related Film: Bicycle Thieves
  • Core: Innocence corrupted by adult ruin
     Reason: The child absorbs the broken logic of the surrounding world and turns it into irreversible action.
     Related Film: Grave of the Fireflies

■ Secondary Axes

  • City as moral wreckage: Urban destruction becomes the visible form of ethical collapse.
     Related Film: Rome, Open City
  • Child as postwar witness: The child’s fate becomes the measure of a civilization’s failure.
     Related Film: The Tin Drum

■ Person

  • Director: Roberto Rossellini
  • Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger

■ Structural Tags

#RuinedOrder #CorruptedInnocence #PostwarWitness


■ Attribute Tags

#ItalianCinema #1948Film #NeorealistDramaFilm

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