Berliner Ballade
(1948)
Regisseur:
Robert A. StemmleSchauspieler:
Gert Fröbe, O.E. Hasse, Hans Deppe, Karl Schönböck, Herbert Weissbach, Erich Dunskus, Ewald Wenck, Clemens Hasse, Albert Bessler, Walter Bluhm, Herwart Grosse, Helmut Heyne, Georgia Lind, Brigitte Mira, Tatjana Sais, Ute SielischDie Handlung dreht sich um einen Mann namens Otto Normalverbraucher, der im Jahr 1949, kurz nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, nach Deutschland zurückkehrt und sich im Berlin der Gegenwart neu orientieren und darin zurechtfindern muß.
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.
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.
