Two women pass through the ruined cemetery; the woman behind carries a pale board, with gravestones, weeds, and labourers in the background00:02:35
After the title, the city appears not as a coherent background for action but as cemetery, rubble, and survival labour layered together. Bilibili timecode 00:02:35.

Action rupture · SHOT EVIDENCE

The cemetery emerges from rubble

When a cemetery is also a worksite and passage of daily life, at what scale can action still repair the city?

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Film and viewing version

Germany Year Zero · Germania anno zero · Roberto Rossellini / 罗伯托·罗西里尼 · 1948

Frame-checked against the single-part Bilibili repost stream BV1hP4y1k78i: the page API reports 4,388 seconds and the retrieved qn16 media runs 4,387.37 seconds. Bilibili supplies no subtitle track; audible facts record only clearly discernible German speech, music, and ambient sound in the image sequence.

Version boundary: The timecodes on this page apply only to the named viewing carrier. Restorations, differing leaders, or platform transcodes may shift them.

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Passage and still timecodes

00:02:05 to 00:02:54

Passage bounds checked on the named carrier

The passage bounds and Bilibili still at 00:02:35 were checked separately on their named carriers. They remain distinct coordinates and do not establish identical timecodes for other versions.

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Visible facts

  1. 01

    The camera first pans across damaged buildings and the city skyline, then cuts into an overgrown cemetery.

  2. 02

    People dig and carry materials among graves, markers, and rubble; a pale board crosses the foreground.

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Audible facts

  1. 01

    The opening orchestral music continues over the city views and the first images of labour in the cemetery.

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Action relation

Digging and carrying are concrete labours, yet they cannot restore stable distinctions among cemetery, dwelling, and ruin.

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Temporal relation

The wartime past does not return through flashback; it remains in the present as a layer of damage still used, cleared, and crossed.

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Conceptual reading

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Primary and scholarly coordinates

  1. 01
    Cinema 2: The Time-Image

    Minnesota 1989 translation: Preface, p. xi; ch. 1, p. 2. 2004 Simplified Chinese edition: ch. 1, p. 3.

    Brief primary-text mention: Deleuze uses the child in Germany Year Zero to connect motor helplessness with a greater capacity to see and hear. Preface p. x and the chapter's following passages are adjacent conceptual context, not direct pages on the film; the scene windows, facts, and criteria are this atlas's shot analysis.

Terminological coordinates

Chapter relations

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Viewing and still sources

Direct scene · Complete single-part Bilibili film; the page and anonymous Player API were verified as playable. Bilibili submission label: repost.