The Berliner
1948/12/31 • Released • German
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.
Director : Robert A. Stemmle
Casts
Gert Fröbe
Otto Normalverbraucher
Tatjana Sais
Ida Holle
Aribert Wäscher
Anton Zeithammer
O.E. Hasse
Der Reaktionär
Hans Deppe
Emil Lemke
Erik Ode
Stimme
Karl Schönböck
Rundfunkreporter
Herbert Hübner
Herr Bollmann
Brigitte Mira
Dirne
Georgia Lind
Dirne
Clemens Hasse
Pfarrer
Franz-Otto Krüger
Georg August Koch
Valy Arnheim
Reinhold Bernt
Albert Bessler
Walter Bluhm
Erich Dunskus
Herwart Grosse
Alfred Maack
Ilse Trautschold
Erik von Loewis
Eduard Wenck
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