The Berliner backdrop
The Berliner poster
Trailer
The Berliner
7.4
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1h 29m
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1948
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Released
Overview
Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.

Cast
Gert Fröbe poster
Gert Fröbe
Otto Normalverbraucher
Tatjana Sais poster
Tatjana Sais
Ida Holle
Ute Sielisch poster
Ute Sielisch
Eva Wandel
Aribert Wäscher poster
Aribert Wäscher
Anton Zeithammer
O.E. Hasse poster
O.E. Hasse
Der Reaktionär
Hans Deppe poster
Hans Deppe
Emil Lemke
Werner Oehlschläger poster
Werner Oehlschläger
Raisonneur
Erik Ode poster
Erik Ode
Stimme
Karl Schönböck poster
Karl Schönböck
Rundfunkreporter
Herbert Hübner poster
Herbert Hübner
Herr Bollmann
Alfred Schieske poster
Alfred Schieske
Herr Schneidewind
Rita Paul poster
Rita Paul
Sängerin
Brigitte Mira poster
Brigitte Mira
Dirne
Georgia Lind poster
Georgia Lind
Dirne
Clemens Hasse poster
Clemens Hasse
Pfarrer
Herbert Weißbach poster
Herbert Weißbach
Kurt Weitkamp poster
Kurt Weitkamp
Franz-Otto Krüger poster
Franz-Otto Krüger
Erwin Biegel poster
Erwin Biegel
Marianne Prenzel poster
Marianne Prenzel

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