The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 86% of the 414 1940s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 14m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
433 audience votes
Key crew
- Roberto RosselliniScreenplay
- Renzo RosselliniOriginal Music Composer
- Roberto RosselliniDirector
- Max KolpéScreenplay
- Carlo LizzaniScreenplay
- Sergio AmideiScreenplay
Cast
- Edmund MoeschkeEdmund
- Ernst PittschauFather
- Ingetraud HinzeEva
- Franz-Otto KrügerKarl-Heinz
- Erich GühneTeacher
- Heidi BlänknerFrau Rademaker (uncredited)
- Jo HerbstJo (uncredited)
- Barbara HintzThilde (uncredited)
- Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
- Karl KrügerDoctor (uncredited)
- Alexandra ManysEva's Friend (uncredited)
- Christl MerkerChristl (uncredited)
