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The Berliner
7.4
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1h 29m
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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.
Cast
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Gert Fröbe
Otto Normalverbraucher
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Tatjana Sais
Ida Holle
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O.E. Hasse
Der Reaktionär
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Hans Deppe
Emil Lemke
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Karl Schönböck
Rundfunkreporter
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Herbert Hübner
Herr Bollmann
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Erik Ode
Stimme
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Rita Paul
Sängerin
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Brigitte Mira
Dirne
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Georgia Lind
Dirne
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Aribert Wäscher
Anton Zeithammer
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Alfred Schieske
Herr Schneidewind
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Clemens Hasse
Pfarrer
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