Germany, Year Zero

Many of the celebrated cinema classics aren’t the films the average audience would enjoy watching. This is especially the case with Italian neorealism, due to its unpleasant themes of poverty and moral devastation caused by the Second World War. One such example was provided by Roberto Rossellini, founding father of Italian neorealism, in his 1948 drama *Germany, Year Zero*, the final and darkest part of his “Neorea…