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GERMANY YEAR ZERO
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FIRST PRIZE - LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL - 1948
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In memory of my son Romano.
- Roberto Rossellini
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When ideologies distance themselves
from 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 tainted
and 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 find
freedom 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 objective
and true portrait
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of this large, almost
totally destroyed city
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where 3.5 million people live
a terrible, desperate life,
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almost without realizing it.
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They live as if tragedy
were natural,