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GERMANY YEAR ZERO
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FIRST PRIZE - LOCARNO INTERNATIONALFILM FESTIVAL - 1948
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In memory of my son Romano.- Roberto Rossellini
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When ideologies distance themselvesfrom Christian morality and piety,
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the very foundation of human life,they become criminal folly.
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Even childhood innocence is taintedand drawn from a horrible crime
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to a lesser one in which,through its own ingenuity,
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it believes to findfreedom from guilt.
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This movie,shot in Berlin in the summer of 194 7,
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aims only to be an objectiveand true portrait
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of this large, almosttotally destroyed city
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where 3.5 million people livea terrible, desperate life,
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almost without realizing it.
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They live as if tragedywere natural,
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