The Berliner

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Gert Fröbe

Otto Normalverbraucher

Age : 75 | Popularity : 28%

Tatjana Sais

Ida Holle

Age : 71 | Popularity : 3%

O.E. Hasse

Der Reaktionär

Age : 75 | Popularity : 6%

Hans Deppe

Emil Lemke

Age : 71 | Popularity : 6%

Karl Schönböck

Rundfunkreporter

Age : 92 | Popularity : 3%

Herbert Hübner

Herr Bollmann

Age : 82 | Popularity : 11%

Erik Ode

Stimme

Age : 72 | Popularity : 10%

Rita Paul

Sängerin

Age : 95 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Heinz Rühmann Alf Teichs
	Unit Manager	Bruno Michalk Martin Sternberg
	Production Manager	Werner Drake
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Gertraud Recke
Camera	Director of Photography	Georg Krause
Sound	Music	Werner Eisbrenner Günter Neumann
	Sound	Hans Löhmer
Directing	Director	Robert A. Stemmle
Editing	Editor	Walter Wischniewsky
Writing	Writer	Günter Neumann
Art	Production Design	Gabriel Pellon
Department	Role	Name

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