The film by Roberto Rossellini, Deutschland im Jahre Null, was part of a trilogy.
It takes place in 1947, real time, in the ruins of Berlin.
Germans are surviving by trading their bodies or meager belongings for food and necessities.
Andy couldn’t concern himself about depravities, being without purpose or direction, or starvation. He’ll always have his Greenies.
…Andy has his own concerns to work out.
Andy has another priority.
Greenies eaten, Andy needs take to the recliner.
Edmond asked his sister and brother if his father’s free now that he is dead. They reassured him.
Edmond tells his former teacher about giving the medicine to his father to help him die. The teacher told him earlier something that Edmond took to mean he should help his father die because there was no future. Learning this, the teacher became agitated, fearing the authorities would now search for him, a Nazi in hiding.
Edmond now understands he did something very wrong. He wanders off through the rubble of Berlin. He briefly tries to play football/ soccer with children who send him away. It was his brief effort to return to childhood.
He climbs into a ruin,where he sees his family sending his father’s body off for burial. His sister calls for him, but he ignores her and jumps out of the ruins to his death.
Andy’s quite content with his life.
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This was an anti-war film that had no soldiers or weapons of war. The impact of misdirected politics on a vibrant, highly civilized people tells the tale: a nation reduced to ruin. When I had military work in West Berlin in the early 1970s as a US Army motion picture photographer, the city was once again rebuilt, vibrant and full of restaurants, bars, theaters, parks, recreational lakes, and just a few signs of the impact of a lost war…the Berlin Wall, for example.