The Berliner
1 hour 29 minutes1948-12-31
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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
Otto Normalverbraucher
Tatjana Sais
Ida Holle
Ute Sielisch
Eva Wandel
Aribert Wäscher
Anton Zeithammer
O.E. Hasse
Der Reaktionär
Hans Deppe
Emil Lemke
Werner Oehlschläger
Raisonneur
Erik Ode
Stimme
Karl Schönböck
Rundfunkreporter
Herbert Hübner
Herr Bollmann
Alfred Schieske
Herr Schneidewind
Rita Paul
Sängerin
Brigitte Mira
Dirne
Georgia Lind
Dirne
Clemens Hasse
Pfarrer
Herbert Weißbach
Kurt Weitkamp
Franz-Otto Krüger
Erwin Biegel
Marianne Prenzel
Otto Matthies
Walter Strasen
Georg August Koch
Franz Pollandt
Walter Schramm
Valy Arnheim
Walter Bechmann
Alfred Beierle
Reinhold Bernt
Albert Bessler
Walter Bluhm
Erich Dunskus
Joe Furtner
Kurt Getke
Herwart Grosse
Karl Hannemann
Helmut Heyne
Hugo Kalthoff
Alfred Maack
Edgar Pauly
Hans Schille
Otz Tollen
Ilse Trautschold
Theodor Vogeler
Erik von Loewis
Werner Völger
Georg Völkel
Alexander Welbat
