The Berliner

Overview

Otto, a feckless Everyman, 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.

Directed by Robert A. Stemmle

Top cast

Gert Fröbe

Otto Normalverbraucher

Tatjana Sais

Ida Holle

U

Ute Sielisch

Eva Wandel

Aribert Wäscher

Anton Zeithammer

O.E. Hasse

Der Reaktionär

Hans Deppe

Emil Lemke

W

Werner Oehlschläger

Raisonneur

Erik Ode

Stimme

Karl Schönböck

Rundfunkreporter

Herbert Hübner

Herr Bollmann

A

Alfred Schieske

Herr Schneidewind

R

Rita Paul

Sängerin

Brigitte Mira

Dirne

Georgia Lind

Dirne

C

Clemens Hasse

Pfarrer

H

Herbert Weißbach

K

Kurt Weitkamp

Franz-Otto Krüger

E

Erwin Biegel

M

Marianne Prenzel

Details