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Release Date:
December 31, 1948
Original Title:
Berliner Ballade
Alternate Titles:
The Berliner
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | History
Production Companies:
Comedia Film - Alf Teichs Produktion
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 6 DE: 16
Runtime: 89
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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Costume Design:
Gertraud Recke
Director:
Robert A. Stemmle
Director of Photography:
Georg Krause
Editor:
Walter Wischniewsky
Music:
Werner Eisbrenner
Günter Neumann
Producer:
Alf Teichs
Heinz Rühmann
Production Design:
Gabriel Pellon
Production Manager:
Werner Drake
Sound:
Hans Löhmer
Unit Manager:
Bruno Michalk
Martin Sternberg
Writer:
Günter Neumann
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