The Berliner

The Berliner by Robert A. Stemmle

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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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Cast

Gert Fröbe

Gert Fröbe as Otto Normalverbraucher

Tatjana Sais

Tatjana Sais as Ida Holle

Ute Sielisch

Ute Sielisch as Eva Wandel

Aribert Wäscher

Aribert Wäscher as Anton Zeithammer

O.E. Hasse

O.E. Hasse as Der Reaktionär

Hans Deppe

Hans Deppe as Emil Lemke

Werner Oehlschläger

Werner Oehlschläger as Raisonneur

Erik Ode

Erik Ode as Stimme

Karl Schönböck

Karl Schönböck as Rundfunkreporter

Herbert Hübner

Herbert Hübner as Herr Bollmann

Alfred Schieske

Alfred Schieske as Herr Schneidewind

Rita Paul

Rita Paul as Sängerin

Brigitte Mira

Brigitte Mira as Dirne

Georgia Lind

Georgia Lind as Dirne

Clemens Hasse

Clemens Hasse as Pfarrer

Herbert Weißbach

Herbert Weißbach as

Kurt Weitkamp

Kurt Weitkamp as

Franz-Otto Krüger

Franz-Otto Krüger as

Erwin Biegel

Erwin Biegel as

Marianne Prenzel

Marianne Prenzel as

Otto Matthies

Otto Matthies as

Walter Strasen

Walter Strasen as

Georg August Koch

Georg August Koch as

Franz Pollandt

Franz Pollandt as

Walter Schramm

Walter Schramm as

Valy Arnheim

Valy Arnheim as

Walter Bechmann

Walter Bechmann as

Alfred Beierle

Alfred Beierle as

Reinhold Bernt

Reinhold Bernt as

Albert Bessler

Albert Bessler as

Walter Bluhm

Walter Bluhm as

Erich Dunskus

Erich Dunskus as

Joe Furtner

Joe Furtner as

Kurt Getke

Kurt Getke as

Herwart Grosse

Herwart Grosse as

Karl Hannemann

Karl Hannemann as

Helmut Heyne

Helmut Heyne as

Hugo Kalthoff

Hugo Kalthoff as

Alfred Maack

Alfred Maack as

Edgar Pauly

Edgar Pauly as

Hans Schille

Hans Schille as

Otz Tollen

Otz Tollen as

Ilse Trautschold

Ilse Trautschold as

Theodor Vogeler

Theodor Vogeler as

Erik von Loewis

Erik von Loewis as

Werner Völger

Werner Völger as

Georg Völkel

Georg Völkel as

Alexander Welbat

Alexander Welbat as

Eduard Wenck

Eduard Wenck as

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