Germany Year Zero (1948)

Unlike the other films in Rossellini’s war trilogy, this last one is set in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. In war-ruined Berlin, twelve year old Edmund Moeschke lives with his sick father and two adult siblings in an assigned apartment house, all struggling to find their next meal and ways out of a desperate situation. A strong indictment on the wreckage left behind by war, the young Moeschke wanders the streets of the city, too young and innocent to be treated as an adult but old enough to experience the same hardships of the adults and make devastating choices because of it.