Dec 31, 1948
89 min
Full-HD

The Berliner (1948)

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.

Category

Drama History Comedy

Country

Germany

Companies

Comedia Film - Alf Teichs Produktion

Gert Fröbe

Otto Normalverbraucher

Tatjana Sais

Ida Holle

O.E. Hasse

Der Reaktionär

Hans Deppe

Emil Lemke

Karl Schönböck

Rundfunkreporter

Herbert Hübner

Herr Bollmann

Erik Ode

Stimme

Rita Paul

Sängerin

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