- A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
- Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War, must do all kinds of work to help his family get food and survive. One day he meets one of his former teachers and hopes to get support from him, but this man's ideas don't lead Edmund into a clearer or safer way of living.—Hugo <transit@cam.org>
- In 1947, an ordinary German family fights to survive in a wrecked Berlin after the end of World War II. The father is very sick, unable to work and bring food home; his older son Karl-Heinz is a former soldier hiding from the police, afraid of the consequences of fighting in the war; his daughter Eva is waiting for her boyfriend Wolf and goes to clubs at night to bring valuable cigarettes and minor gifts to contribute to her family's survival; and 12-year-old Edmund wanders through the devastated city trying to find work or food. When he meets his former teacher, Herr Henning, he will be led to a desperate final solution.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Burdened with the difficult task of providing for his family in Allied-occupied post-World War II Berlin, brave 12-year-old Edmund Köhler scrapes by on whatever he can find in the war-battered streets. Undoubtedly, this is a great responsibility, but with his father too sick to get out of bed and his older ex-Nazi brother Karl-Heinz hiding from the authorities, he is the family's only chance of survival. So the innocent and desperate boy must soon accept his former teacher Herr Henning's risky proposition. He seems to still be nostalgic for the old days--can an unrepentant Nazi's venom still be potent?—Nick Riganas
- The final film in Rossellini's war-film trilogy (after Rome, Open City; and Paisà). Germany Year Zero takes place in post-war Germany, unlike the others, which take place in German-occupied Rome and post-war Italy, respectively. The story follows 12-year-old Edmund Kohler, who is mainly left to his own devices in order to survive and to help his family do the same.—yusufpiskin
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