The Berliner (1950)

  • 6
  • 06/23/1950 (AT)
  • Comedy
  • 1h 29m

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.

Günter Neumann

Writer

Robert A. Stemmle

Director

Cast

Gert Fröbe's headshot

Gert Fröbe

Otto Normalverbraucher
Tatjana Sais's headshot

Tatjana Sais

Ida Holle
Ute Sielisch's headshot

Ute Sielisch

Eva Wandel
Aribert Wäscher's headshot

Aribert Wäscher

Anton Zeithammer
O.E. Hasse's headshot

O.E. Hasse

Der Reaktionär
Hans Deppe's headshot

Hans Deppe

Emil Lemke
Werner Oehlschläger's headshot

Werner Oehlschläger

Raisonneur
Erik Ode's headshot

Erik Ode

Stimme

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