The Berliner (1948)

7.4/10 89 min Comedy

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.

Cast

Gert Fröbe

Otto Normalverbraucher

Tatjana Sais

Ida Holle

Aribert Wäscher

Anton Zeithammer

O.E. Hasse

Der Reaktionär

Hans Deppe

Emil Lemke

Erik Ode

Stimme

Karl Schönböck

Rundfunkreporter

Herbert Hübner

Herr Bollmann

Georgia Lind

Dirne

Franz-Otto Krüger

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