The Berliner (1948)

ALL 12/31/1948 (de) Comedy 89 Min
  • Release
    12/31/1948
  • Production
    Comedia-Film
  • Rotten tomato
    74%
  • Original title
    Berliner Ballade
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Story



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The Berliner (1948) 89 Min

ALL 12/31/1948 (de)
Comedy
  • Release 12/31/1948
  • Production
    Comedia-Film
  • Original title Berliner Ballade
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Robert A. Stemmle

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Walter Wischniewsky

    Editor

  4. Heinz Rühmann, Alf Teichs

    Producer