The Berliner
7.4
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1948-12-31
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Comedy
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.
Featured Crew
| Robert A. Stemmle | Director |
| Heinz Rühmann | Producer |
| Günter Neumann | Writer |
| Alf Teichs | Producer |
| Günter Neumann | Music |
| Georg Krause | Director of Photography |
| Gabriel Pellon | Production Design |
| Gertraud Recke | Costume Design |
| Bruno Michalk | Unit Manager |
| Martin Sternberg | Unit Manager |
