Carlo Lizzani was the only Italian hired to work on Roberto Rossellini's international crew for GERMANY YEAR ZERO. In this podium discussion from the Tutto Rossellini conference in Pesaro, Italy, in June 1987, Lizzani discusses his role as assistant director on the film. He also reads excerpts from letters that he wrote about the production while on set to his friend Antonello Trombadori, an art critic and influential member of the Italian Communist Party, who had helped get him the job.