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.
| Title | The Berliner |
|---|---|
| Year | 1948 |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Country | Germany |
| Studio | Comedia-Film |
| Cast | Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher, O.E. Hasse, Hans Deppe |
| Crew | Robert A. Stemmle (Director), Günter Neumann (Writer), Alf Teichs (Producer), Heinz Rühmann (Producer), Georg Krause (Director of Photography), Walter Wischniewsky (Editor) |
| Keyword | east berlin, west berlin, post war germany |
| Release | Dec 31, 1948 |
| Runtime | 89 minutes |
| Quality | HD |
| IMDb | 7.40 / 10 by 8 users |
| Popularity | 2 |
| Budget | 0 |
| Revenue | 0 |
| Language | Deutsch |
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