The Berliner

The Berliner (1948)


  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1948-12-31
  • User Rating: 7.4/10 from 8 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 29min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Comedia-Film
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director: Robert A. Stemmle
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Summary

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.

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  • Gert Fröbe

    as Otto Normalverbraucher

  • Tatjana Sais

    as Ida Holle

  • Ute Sielisch

    as Eva Wandel

  • Aribert Wäscher

    as Anton Zeithammer

  • O.E. Hasse

    as Der Reaktionär

  • Hans Deppe

    as Emil Lemke

  • Werner Oehlschläger

    as Raisonneur

  • Erik Ode

    as Stimme

  • Karl Schönböck

    as Rundfunkreporter

  • Herbert Hübner

    as Herr Bollmann

  • Alfred Schieske

    as Herr Schneidewind

  • Rita Paul

    as Sängerin

  • Brigitte Mira

    as Dirne

  • Georgia Lind

    as Dirne

  • Clemens Hasse

    as Pfarrer

  • Herbert Weißbach

    as

  • Kurt Weitkamp

    as

  • Franz-Otto Krüger

    as

  • Erwin Biegel

    as

  • Marianne Prenzel

    as

  • Otto Matthies

    as

  • Walter Strasen

    as

  • Georg August Koch

    as

  • Franz Pollandt

    as

  • Walter Schramm

    as

  • Valy Arnheim

    as

  • Walter Bechmann

    as

  • Alfred Beierle

    as

  • Reinhold Bernt

    as

  • Albert Bessler

    as

  • Walter Bluhm

    as

  • Erich Dunskus

    as

  • Joe Furtner

    as

  • Kurt Getke

    as

  • Herwart Grosse

    as

  • Karl Hannemann

    as

  • Helmut Heyne

    as

  • Hugo Kalthoff

    as

  • Alfred Maack

    as

  • Edgar Pauly

    as

  • Hans Schille

    as

  • Otz Tollen

    as

  • Ilse Trautschold

    as

  • Theodor Vogeler

    as

  • Erik von Loewis

    as

  • Werner Völger

    as

  • Georg Völkel

    as

  • Alexander Welbat

    as

  • Eduard Wenck

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

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