The Berliner (1948)
The Berliner (1948) - Drama Movies 89 minutes. The Berliner. 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. east berlin, west berlin, post war germany
Released: Dec 31, 1948
Runtime: 89 minutes
Stars: Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, O.E. Hasse, Hans Deppe, Karl Schönböck, Herbert Hübner
Crew: Robert A. Stemmle (Director), Heinz Rühmann (Producer), Günter Neumann (Writer), Alf Teichs (Producer), Günter Neumann (Music), Georg Krause (Director of Photography)