
Tras las magníficas Roma, ciudad abierta y Paisa, que retrataban las penalidades de distintos personajes del bando aliado durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el impulsor del neorrealismo italiano, Roberto Rossellini y su guionista habitual, Sergio Amidei, componen un dramático fresco de las penalidades de los supervivientes del bando alemán. El cineasta presenta personajes humanos, y utiliza actores no profesionales bastante expresivos.
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, incapable 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 war; his daughter Eva is waiting for her boyfriend Wolf and goes to the clubs in the night to bring valuable cigarettes and minor gifts to contribute with the survival of her family; and the twelve years old boy Edmund wanders through the destructed city trying to find work or some food to reduce the starvation of his family. When Edmund meets his former teacher, the pedophile Herr Enning, he misunderstands his Nazi speech about the survival of the stronger and poisons the food of his father, leading the hopeless boy to a desperate final solution.
"El maestro Rossellini crea una película terrible, virulenta, amarga y a la par bellísima, reflexión de inaudita dureza sobre los horrores de la guerra. La audacia formal y la perfección estética de las películas de Rossellini nacen de la mirada de un director comprometido moralmente con su trabajo, de un director inigualable" (Miguel Ángel Palomo: Diario El País)

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