In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.
Direction
Rossellini shoots actual rubble like it's breathing.
Acting
Moeschke's hollow eyes—no child should look this lost.
Cinematography
Berlin itself becomes a ghost character.
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Rossellini's unofficial 'War Trilogy' that essentially invented Italian neorealism as a global movement.
Edmund Moeschke was a non-professional discovered in a Berlin school; he never acted again after this traumatic production.
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