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– I don't go to school anymore. – Why not? You don't like the new teachers? – I have to work now.
Germania anno zero [Germany Year Zero] (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
Feb
6
National Sickie Day
Edmund (Edmund Köhler) walking through rubble in a post-apocalyptic Berlin. DP: Robert Juillard.
Twelve-year-old Edmund – the oldest kid to survive – works to support his whole family including his sick bedridden father while the remains of what was a thousand-year empire lies in rubbles around them.
Following Roma città aperta (1945) and Paisà (1946) of #Rossellini's unofficial war trilogy.