Story Line
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.
“A soldier can lose everything but his courage.”
Top Cast
Edmund Moeschke
Edmund
Ernst Pittschau
Father
Ingetraud Hinze
Eva
Franz-Otto Krüger
Karl-Heinz
Erich Gühne
Teacher
Heidi Blänkner
Frau Rademaker (uncredited)
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Rating
7.6/ 10
Release Date
1948-07-11
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Drama
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User Reviews (2)
talisencrw
9/10
•7/31/2016What an awful position the despicable Nazis left their descendants at the close of the Second World War. Rossellini has the perfect, objective, almost documentarian painterly hand in his depiction of this, and I have the feeling that only someone fro...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•7/9/2022Edmund Moeschke ("Edmund") is superb in this gritty and authentic looking post-war story of a young boy struggling, with his family, to make ends meet in Berlin after the fall of the Nazis. Scrounging, scrimping, scavenging - all to try and keep his ...