The Berliner
Berliner Ballade
Watch the berliner soap2day. 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: Drama, History, Comedy
- Country: Germany
- Director: Robert A. Stemmle
- Cast: Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, O.E. Hasse, Hans Deppe, Karl Schönböck, Herbert Hübner, Erik Ode, Rita Paul, Brigitte Mira, Georgia Lind, Aribert Wäscher, Alfred Schieske, Clemens Hasse,
