
The Berliner (1948)
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.
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Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | de |
Popularity | 1.826 |
Directed By
Robert A. Stemmle
Crew
Heinz Rühmann
Günter Neumann
Robert A. Stemmle
Alf Teichs
Gabriel Pellon
Günter Neumann
Hans Löhmer
Gertraud Recke
Georg Krause
Bruno Michalk
Walter Wischniewsky
Martin Sternberg
Werner Eisbrenner
Werner Drake
TOP 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