Alemania, año cero – Germania, anno zero (Germany, Year Zero)

Edmund, un niño de doce años, intenta sobrevivir a las duras condiciones de la postguerra alemana, especialmente en Berlín, una ciudad que ha quedado completamente derruida tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

EXTRAS

• Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini from 1963
• Italian-release opening credits and voice-over prologue
• Roberto Rossellini, a 2001 documentary by Carlo Lizzani, assistant director on Germany Year Zero, tracing Rossellini’s career through archival footage and interviews with family members and collaborators, with tributes by filmmakers François Truffaut
• Letters from the Front: Carlo Lizzani on “Germany Year Zero,” a discussion with Lizzani from the 1987 Tutto Rossellini conference
• Interview from 2009 with Rossellini scholar Adriano Aprà
• Interview from 2009 with Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Padre padrone) in which they discuss the profound influence Rossellini’s films have had on them