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The Berliner 1948 Free Unlimited Access
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.
Genre: Comedy
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)
Studio: Comedia-Film
Runtime: 89 minutes
Quality: HD
Release: Dec 31, 1948
Country: Germany
Language: Deutsch
