"Actor: Edmund Moeschke"

• Germany Year Zero (DVD) | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Newly restored version of Roberto Rossellini’s closing part of his celebrated War Trilogy. Amidst the ruins of Berlin in the immediate post-war years a young boy Edmund attempts to support his family. This devastating portrait of an obliterated post-war Europe remains one of the most affecting films in the history of cinema. This new DVD edition also includes L’Amore (1948) Rossellini’s two-part anthology film which proved hugely controversial on its original release. The first part was co-scripted by Rossellini and Federico Fellini and stars Fellini as Saint Joseph who villainously impregnates Nanni (Anna Magnani) a disturbed peasant who believes herself to be the Virgin Mary. The second part is based on Jean Cocteau’s play La voix humaine. Features: Newly restored presentations of Germany Year Zero and L’Amore L’Amore (Roberto Rossellini 1948 70 mins): anthology film with sections written by Jean Cocteau and Federico Fellini and starring Anna Magnani Illustrated booklet with film notes and complete credits

• Germany Year Zero | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Year Zero in a divided Germany. With his father too ill to work his soldier brother terrified of being arrested as a war criminal and his sister reduced to cadging cigarettes from occupying troops 12 year old Edmund scours Berlin for any work he can find. However a meeting with his disgraced teacher who still clings to his Nazi ideals suggests a hideous solution to his problems. Completeing the war trilogy that Roberto Rossellini started with Rome Open City and Paisa this is one of the masterpieces of neo-realism. Unflinchingly depicting the dehumanising impact of defeat on a guilt-ridden nation this harrowing study of social disintegration is held together by an exeptional performance by Edmund Moeschke a circus hand who had never acted before and was chosen because he resembled Rossellini's recently deceased son Romano to whom the film is dedicated.