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  • A young boy in a school uniform walks in a desolate urban street.
  • A New York Times ad from 1949 for the film, with a small image of a boy and girl, and a review of the film.
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Roberto Rossellini’s
GERMANY YEAR ZERO

4:55

Thursday, May 2

(1948) “A long opening tracking shot through Berlin’s ruins under the Occupation in 1945 is both documentary and a hallucinatory voyage through a Stone Age city, the perfect illustration of that realist film can also forge fantasy. It sparks against the story of a thirteen-year-old boy who works the black market, sells Hitler souvenirs for chewing-gum, and who will kill his sick father out of naïve mercy and regard for the whisperings of his old Nazi teacher.” – Don MacPherson, Time Out. DCP imported especially for this series. Approx. 78 min.

Part of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy.

Links

Roberto Rossellini’s<br>ROME OPEN CITY

Roberto Rossellini’s
ROME OPEN CITY

Thursday, May 2
12:30   6:35

Roberto Rossellini’s<br>PAISAN

Roberto Rossellini’s
PAISAN

Thursday, May 2
2:35   8:40

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