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Anyone who has studied film history in university, or is simply a cinephile, knows how fundamental Roberto Rossellini is in the world of cinema. Discover the review
Anyone who has studied film history in university, or is simply a cinephile, knows how fundamental Roberto Rossellini is in the world of cinema.
The unifying core of that complex and varied cinematic experience known as Neorealism can be identified in the need, felt by directors and intellectuals immediately after the war, to break through the paper-mache of fascist rhetoric to come into contact with reality as it is. Discover the review
The unifying core of that complex and varied cinematic experience known as Neorealism can be identified in the need, felt by directors and intellectuals immediately after the war, to break through the paper-mache of fascist rhetoric to come into contact with reality as it is.
This film, shot in Berlin in the summer of 1947, is intended to be an objective and faithful depiction of this immense semi-destroyed city, where three and a half million people lead an existence that is appalling and desperate, almost without realizing it, living in tragedy as in their natural element, but not because of strength of spirit or faith, but out of weariness. It is neither an indictment against the German people, nor a defense, but a serene statement of facts; but if someone, after watching the story of Edmund Koeller, thinks that something must be done, that German children must be taught to love life again, then the effort of those who made this film will have been rewarded. Discover the review
This film, shot in Berlin in the summer of 1947, is intended to be an objective and faithful depiction of this immense semi-destroyed city, where three and a half million people lead an existence that is appalling and desperate, almost without realizing it, living in tragedy as in their natural element, but not because of strength of spirit or faith, but out of weariness. It is neither an indictment against the German people, nor a defense, but a serene statement of facts; but if someone, after watching the story of Edmund Koeller, thinks that something must be done, that German children must be taught to love life again, then the effort of those who made this film will have been rewarded.
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