Germany, Year Zero
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1948 |
| Country | Italy |
| Director | Roberto Rossellini |
| Cast | Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger |
| Genre | Drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Germany, Year Zero | – |
| Español | Alemania, año cero | Alemania, ano cero |
| Français | Allemagne année zéro | Allemagne annee zero |
| Deutsch | Deutschland im Jahre Null | Deutschland im Jahre Null |
| Português | Alemanha, Ano Zero | Alemanha, Ano Zero |
| Italiano | Germania anno zero | Germania anno zero |
| Русский | Германия, год нулевой | Germaniya, god nulevoy |
| 中文（简体） | 德意志零年 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 德意志零年 | – |
| 한국어 | 독일 영년 | Dogil Yeongnyeon |
| ไทย | Germany, Year Zero | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Germany, Year Zero | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Germany, 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
