Berliner Ballade (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.
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Gert FröbeOtto Normalverbraucher
Tatjana SaisIda Holle
O.E. HasseDer ReaktionärHans DeppeEmil Lemke
Karl SchönböckRundfunkreporter
Herbert HübnerHerr Bollmann
Erik OdeStimmeRita PaulSängerin
Brigitte MiraDirne
Georgia LindDirnePalabras clave
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Frequently asked questions about Berliner Ballade
What is Berliner Ballade about?
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.
How long is Berliner Ballade?
Berliner Ballade has a runtime of 89 minutes.