In close-up, an older man grips Edmund by the back of the neck and speaks close to his face00:24:40
The former teacher gives Edmund a record of a Hitler speech and a player to sell at the ruined Chancellery. Bilibili timecode 00:24:40.

Action rupture · SHOT EVIDENCE

The teacher hands Hitler's record to the child

How does a collapsed political world continue to organize a child's action through record, trade, and lie?

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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.

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Passage and still timecodes

00:23:58 to 00:26:11

Passage bounds checked on the named carrier

The passage bounds and Bilibili still at 00:24:40 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 teacher keeps Edmund in front of him, repeatedly grips his shoulder and neck, and speaks at close range.

  2. 02

    Edmund remains nearly still while the teacher's hand and face dominate the frame.

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Audible facts

  1. 01

    The teacher asks why Edmund is out of school and why the family lacks food, then gives him a Hitler speech record and player to sell, telling him to claim the record as his own if questioned.

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Action relation

The teacher converts household scarcity into a black-market task of selling the record and lying about its ownership, placing the child in an action-position arranged by an adult.

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Temporal relation

Defeat has not ended the old discourse; it continues into the child's present through the teacher's voice and bodily contact.

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Conceptual reading

The record is then played in the ruined Chancellery, showing political speech converted into a portable, reproducible, and saleable object.

Concepts used in the judgement

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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.